Browsing Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute by Author "Cadena, Edwin A."

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The first late pleistocene record of Kinosternon (Cryptodira: Kinosternidae) turtles for northern South America, Pubenza locality, Colombia

Cadena, Edwin A.; Jaramillo, Carlos A.; Paramo, Maria (2007)

The first fossil record of Kinosternon turtles in South America, from the late Pleistocene (16500 years before present) at the Pubenza locality, Department of Cundinamarca, in the Bogotá River basin of Colombia is described. ...
The fossil record of turtles in Colombia; a review of the discoveries, research and future challenges

Cadena, Edwin A. (2014)
Giant boid snake from the Palaeocene neotropics reveals hotter past equatorial temperatures

Head, Jason J.; Bloch, Jonathan I.; Hastings, Alexander K.; Bourque, Jason R.; Cadena, Edwin A.; Herrera, Fabiany A.; Polly, P. David; Jaramillo, Carlos A. (2009)

The largest extant snakes live in the tropics of South America and southeast Asia<U><SUP>1, 2, 3</SUP></U> where high temperatures facilitate the evolution of large body sizes among air-breathing animals whose body ...

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