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Author Janis, Christine M. (Christine Marie), 1950-

Title Evolution of tertiary mammals of North America. Volume 2, Small mammals, xenarthrans, and marine mammals / Christine M. Janis, Gregg F. Gunnell, Mark D. Uhen
Published Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 795 pages) : illustrations
Series Evolution of Tertiary mammals of North America ; v. 2
Evolution of Tertiary Mammals of North America, v.2
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Evolutionary paleobiology.
Mammals, Fossil -- North America
Animals, Fossil -- North America
NATURE -- Fossils.
Animals, Fossil
Evolutionary paleobiology
Mammals, Fossil
North America
Form Electronic book
Author Gunnell, Gregg F.
Uhen, Mark D.
ISBN 9780511409967
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Other Titles Small mammals, xenarthrans, and marine mammals