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Evolution of tertiary mammals of North America. Volume 2, Small mammals, xenarthrans, and marine mammals / Christine M. Janis, Gregg F. Gunnell, Mark D. Uhen.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Evolution of Tertiary Mammals of North America, v.2Publication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.Description: 1 online resource (viii, 795 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780511409967
  • 0511409966
  • 9780511541438
  • 0511541430
  • 9780521781176
  • 0521781175
  • 1281717134
  • 9781281717139
  • 1107174082
  • 9781107174085
  • 9786611717131
  • 6611717137
  • 0511409427
  • 9780511409424
  • 0511408064
  • 9780511408069
  • 0511407327
  • 9780511407321
  • 0511408870
  • 9780511408878
Other title:
  • Small mammals, xenarthrans, and marine mammals
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Evolution of tertiary mammals of North America. Volume 2, Small mammals, xenarthrans, and marine mammals.DDC classification:
  • 569.097 22
LOC classification:
  • QE881 .E857eb vol. 2
Online resources:
Contents:
pt. 1. Non-eutherian mammals -- pt. 2. Insectivorous mammals -- pt. 3. "Edentata" -- pt. 4. Archonta -- pt. 5. Glires -- pt. 6. Marine mammals.
Summary: This second volume completes the unique survey of North American Tertiary mammals, and covers all the remaining taxa not contained in Volume 1. It provides a complete listing of mammalian diversity over time and space, and evaluates the effect of biogeography and climatic change on evolutionary patterns and faunal transitions, with the distribution in time and space of each taxon laid out in a standardized format. It contains six summary chapters that integrate systematic and biogeographic information for higher taxa, and provides a detailed account of the patterns of occurrence for different species at hundreds of different fossil localities, with the inclusion of many more localities than were contained in the first volume. With over thirty chapters, each written by leading authorities, and an addendum that updates the occurrence and systematics of all of the groups covered in Volume 1, this will be a valuable reference for paleontologists and zoologists.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

pt. 1. Non-eutherian mammals -- pt. 2. Insectivorous mammals -- pt. 3. "Edentata" -- pt. 4. Archonta -- pt. 5. Glires -- pt. 6. Marine mammals.

Print version record.

This second volume completes the unique survey of North American Tertiary mammals, and covers all the remaining taxa not contained in Volume 1. It provides a complete listing of mammalian diversity over time and space, and evaluates the effect of biogeography and climatic change on evolutionary patterns and faunal transitions, with the distribution in time and space of each taxon laid out in a standardized format. It contains six summary chapters that integrate systematic and biogeographic information for higher taxa, and provides a detailed account of the patterns of occurrence for different species at hundreds of different fossil localities, with the inclusion of many more localities than were contained in the first volume. With over thirty chapters, each written by leading authorities, and an addendum that updates the occurrence and systematics of all of the groups covered in Volume 1, this will be a valuable reference for paleontologists and zoologists.

English.

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