Late Cretaceous And Cenozoic Mammals Of North America
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Author | : Michael O. Woodburne |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 413 |
Release | : 2004-04-21 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0231503784 |
This book places into modern context the information by which North American mammalian paleontologists recognize, divide, calibrate, and discuss intervals of mammalian evolution known as North American Land Mammal Ages. It incorporates new information on the systematic biology of the fossil record and utilizes the many recent advances in geochronologic methods and their results. The book describes the increasingly highly resolved stratigraphy into which all available temporally significant data and applications are integrated. Extensive temporal coverage includes the Lancian part of the Late Cretaceous, and geographical coverage includes information from Mexico, an integral part of the North American fauna, past and present.
Author | : Federico Agnolin |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 335 |
Release | : |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 3031562666 |
Author | : Alan Graham |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 1999-03-25 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 019511342X |
This book is a unique and integrated account of the history of North American vegetation and paleoenvironments over the past 70 million years. It includes discussions of the modern plant communities, causal factors for environmental change, biotic response, and methodologies. The history reveals a North American vegetation that is vast, immensely complex, and dynamic.
Author | : Michael O. Woodburne |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 1987-01-01 |
Genre | : Geology |
ISBN | : 9780520053922 |
Author | : Christine M. Janis |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 712 |
Release | : 1998-05-28 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780521355193 |
This book is designed as a source and reference for people interested in the history and fossil record of North American tertiary mammals. Each chapter covers a different family or order, and includes information on anatomical features, systematics, the distribution of the genera and species at different fossil localities, and a discussion of their paleobiology. Many of these groups have never been covered in this fashion before.
Author | : Thomas M. Bown |
Publisher | : Geological Society of America |
Total Pages | : 253 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0813722438 |
Author | : Henry Fairfield Osborn |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 150 |
Release | : 1909 |
Genre | : Mammals, Fossil |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Jean F. Blashfield |
Publisher | : Heinemann-Raintree Library |
Total Pages | : 88 |
Release | : 2005-11-23 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9781403476616 |
Imagine the blooming of the very first flower. Or a 3-ton sloth with massive claws standing as tall as a giraffe. And horses the size of small dogs that have toes instead of hooves. This is not a dream or vision of an artist or author. This is North America over 20 million years ago! Journey into the distant past with this book and witness the earliest events in North America; when mammals rose from the shadows of the extinct dinosaurs to fill the land, and the first flowers and grasslands bloomed.
Author | : Francis G. Stehli |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 611 |
Release | : 2013-03-09 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1468491814 |
Two rather different elements combine to explain the origin of this volume: one scientific and one personal. The broader of the two is the scientific basis-the time for such a volume had arrived. Geology had made remarkable progress toward an understanding of the phys ical history of the Caribbean Basin for the last 100 million years or so. On the biological side, many new discoveries had elucidated the distributional history of terrestrial orga nisms in and between the two Americas. Geological and biological data had been combined to yield the timing of important events with unprecedented resolution. Clearly, when each of two broad disciplines is making notable advances and when each provides new insights for the other, the rewards of cross-disciplinary contacts increase exponentially. The present volume represents an attempt to bring together a group of geologists, paleontologists and biologists capable of exploiting this opportunity through presentation of an interdisciplinary synthesis of evidence and hypothesis concerning interamerican connections during the Cretaceous and Cenozoic. Advances in plate tectonics form the basis for a modern synthesis and, in the broadest terms, dictate the framework within which the past and present distributions of organisms must be interpreted. Any scientific dis cipline must seek tests of its conclusions from data outside of its own confines.
Author | : Guillermo W. Rougier |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 2021-02-22 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 3030638626 |
This book summarizes the most relevant published paleontological information, supplemented by our own original work, on the record of Mesozoic mammals’ evolution, their close ancestors and their immediate descendants. Mammals evolved in a systematically diverse world, amidst a dynamic geography that is at the root of the 6,500 species living today. Fossils of Mesozoic mammals, while rare and often incomplete, are key to understanding how mammals have evolved over more than 200 million years. Mesozoic mammals and their close relatives occur in a few dozen localities from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Bolivia, and Peru spanning from the Mid- Triassic to the Late Cretaceous, with some lineages surviving the cataclysmic end of the Cretaceous period, into the Cenozoic of Argentina. There are roughly 25 recognized mammalian species distributed in several distinctive lineages, including australosphenidans, multituberculates, gondwanatherians, eutriconodonts, amphilestids and dryolestoids, among others. With its focus on diversity, systematics, phylogeny, and their impact on the evolution of mammals, there is no similar book currently available.