Alberto Boscaini

Alberto Boscaini, Italian zoologist.

Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Instituto de Ecología, Genética y Evolución de Buenos Aires (IEGEBA), Departamento de Ecología, Genética y Evolución, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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Boscaini, A., Pujos, F. & Gaudin, T.J. 2019. A reappraisal of the phylogeny of Mylodontidae (Mammalia, Xenarthra) and the divergence of mylodontine and lestodontine sloths. Zoologica Scripta 48(6): 691–710. DOI: 10.1111/zsc.12376 Reference page.
Cartelle, C., De Iuliis, G., Boscaini, A. & Pujos, F. 2019. Anatomy, possible sexual dimorphism, and phylogenetic affinities of a new mylodontine sloth from the late Pleistocene of intertropical Brazil. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 17(23): 1957–1988. DOI: 10.1080/14772019.2019.1574406 Reference page.

De Iuliis, G., Boscaini, A., Pujos, F., McAfee, R.K., Cartelle, C., Tsuji, L.J.S. & Rook, L. 2020. On the status of the giant mylodontine sloth Glossotherium wegneri (Spillmann, 1931) (Xenarthra, Folivora) from the late Pleistocene of Ecuador. Comptes Rendus Palevol 19(12): 215–232. DOI: 10.5852/cr-palevol2020v19a12 Reference page.

Boscaini, A., Toledo, N., Pérez, L.M., Taglioretti, M.L. & McAfee, R.K. 2022. New well-preserved materials of Glossotherium chapadmalense (Xenarthra, Mylodontidae) from the Pliocene of Argentina shed light on the origin and evolution of the genus. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 42(2): e2128688. DOI: 10.1080/02724634.2022.2128688 Reference page.
Gaudin, T.J., Boscaini, A., Mamani Quispe, B., Flores, R.A., Fernández-Monescillo, M., Marivaux, L., Antoine, P.-O. Münch, P. & Pujos, F. 2022. Recognition of a new nothrotheriid genus (Mammalia, Folivora) from the early late Miocene of Achiri (Bolivia) and the taxonomic status of the genus Xyophorus. Historical Biology 35(6): 1041–1051. DOI: 10.1080/08912963.2022.2075744 Reference page.

Casali, D.M., Castro, M.C., Ciancio, M.R., Gaudin, T.J., Bramblett, J.L., Boscaini, A., Perini, F.A. & Langer, M.C. 2026. Unravelling the phylogeny of armadillos and their kin (Mammalia, Xenarthra, Cingulata) combining morphological, molecular, and stratigraphic data. Cladistics (in press). DOI: 10.1111/cla.70048 Reference page.