The Tertiary Record Of Rodents In North America
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Author | : William W. Korth |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 315 |
Release | : 2013-11-21 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1489914447 |
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Nearly half of the known species of mammals alive today (more than 1600) are rodents or "gnawing mammals" (Nowak and Paradiso, 1983). The diversity of rodents is greater than that of any other order of mammals. Thus, it is not surprising that the fossil record of this order is extensive and fossil material of rodents from the Tertiary is known from all continents except Antarctica and Australia. The purpose of this book is to compile the published knowledge on fossil rodents from North America and present it in a way that is accessible to paleontologists and mammalogists interested in evolutionary studies of ro dents. The literature on fossil rodents is widely scattered between journals on paleontology and mammalogy and in-house publications of museums and universities. Currently, there is no single source that offers ready access to the literature on a specific family of rodents and its fossil history. This work is presented as a reference text that can be useful to specialists in rodents (fossil or recent) as weIl as mammalian paleontologists working on whole faunas. Because the diversity of rodents in the world is essentially limitless, any monograph that included all fossil rodents would similarly be limitless. Hence, this book is limited to the re cord of Tertiary rodents of North America. The several species of South American (caviomorph) rodents that invaded North America near the end of the Tertiary are also not included in this text.
Author | : Robert Warren Wilson |
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Total Pages | : 98 |
Release | : 1949 |
Genre | : Paleontology |
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Author | : William W. Korth |
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Total Pages | : 2131 |
Release | : 1983 |
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Download Earliest Tertiary Evolution and Radiation of Rodents in North America Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Author | : Christine M. Janis |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 712 |
Release | : 1998-05-28 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780521355193 |
Download Evolution of Tertiary Mammals of North America: Volume 1, Terrestrial Carnivores, Ungulates, and Ungulate Like Mammals Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
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 | : David J. Hafner |
Publisher | : IUCN |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9782831704630 |
Download North American Rodents Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The first comprehensive treatment of North American rodents of conservation concern. This action plan summarizes the rodent fauna of North America and provides available information on every rodent taxon that has been considered to be of conservation concern by state, provincial and private conservation agencies and regional experts. It is hoped that the survey provided in this action plan will serve as a common ground for all these parties in drawing up conservation strategies for rodents.
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Download Cricetid Rodents Described by Leidy and Cope from Tertiary of North America. American Museum Novitates Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Author | : Rachel C. Benton |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2015-05-25 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0253016088 |
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This guide to the South Dakota region that houses the world’s richest fossil beds does “an excellent job of presenting the current state of knowledge” (Choice). The forbidding Big Badlands in Western South Dakota contain the richest fossil beds in the world. Even today these rocks continue to yield new specimens brought to light by snowmelt and rain washing away soft rock deposited on a floodplain long ago. The quality and quantity of the fossils are superb: most of the species to be found there are known from hundreds of specimens. The fossils in the White River Group (and similar deposits in the American west) preserve the entire late Eocene through the middle Oligocene, roughly 35-30 million years ago and more than thirty million years after non-avian dinosaurs became extinct. The fossils provide a detailed record of a period of abrupt global cooling and what happened to creatures who lived through it. This book is a comprehensive reference to the sediments and fossils of the Big Badlands, and also touches on National Park Service management policies that help protect such significant fossils. Includes photos and illustrations “A worthy successor to the work of O’Harra.” —Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology
Author | : Michael O. Woodburne |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 413 |
Release | : 2004-04-21 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0231503784 |
Download Late Cretaceous and Cenozoic Mammals of North America Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
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 | : Kenneth D. Rose |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 468 |
Release | : 2006-10-31 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 080189221X |
Download The Beginning of the Age of Mammals Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
In the tradition of G. G. Simpson's classic work, Kenneth D. Rose's The Beginning of the Age of Mammals analyzes the events that occurred directly before and after the mysterious K-T boundary which so quickly thrust mammals from obscurity to planetary dominance. Rose surveys the evolution of mammals, beginning with their origin from cynodont therapsids in the Mesozoic, contemporary with dinosaurs, through the early Cenozoic, with emphasis on the Paleocene and Eocene adaptive radiations of therian mammals. Focusing on the fossil record, he presents the anatomical evidence used to interpret behavior and phylogenetic relationships. The life's work of one of the most knowledgeable researchers in the field, this richly illustrated, magisterial book combines sound scientific principles and meticulous research and belongs on the shelf of every paleontologist and mammalogist.
Author | : Albert Elmer Wood |
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Total Pages | : 8 |
Release | : 1936 |
Genre | : Muridae, Fossil |
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