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1 online resource (xiv, 428 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (chiefly color) |
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Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- THE EARLY CENOZIC MAMMALIAN RADIATION -- TIMING OF THE CROWN-THERIAN RADIATION -- MAMMALIAN PHYLOGENY, INTERRELATIONSHIPS, AND CLASSIFICATION -- GEOCHRONOLOGY AND BIOCHRONOLOGY OF THE EARLY CENOZOIC -- PALEOGEOGRAPHIC SETTING DURING THE BEGINNING OF THE AGE OF MAMMALS -- PALEOCENE-EOCENE CLIMATE AND FLORA -- ORGANIZATION OF THE VOLUME -- 2 Mammalian Skeletal Structure and Adaptations -- SKULL -- DENTITION -- POSTCRANIAL SKELETON -- SKELETAL ADAPTATIONS -- 3 The Origin of Mammals |
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WHAT IS A MAMMAL?THE EVOLUTIONARY TRANSITION TO MAMMALS -- 4 Synopsis of Mesozoic Mammal Evolution -- HISTORICAL BACKGROUND -- THE OLDEST MAMMALS -- DOCODONTA -- MULTITUBERCULATA -- EUTRICONODONTA -- SYMMETRODONTS -- EUPANTOTHERES -- TRIBOSPHENIC MAMMALS -- MESOZOIC MAMMALS OF UNCERTAIN AFFINITY -- 5 Metatheria: Marsupials and Their Relatives -- BASAL METATHERIANS -- PRIMITIVE MARSUPIALS -- 6 Earliest Eutherian Mammals -- 7 Cimolesta -- DIDELPHODONTA AND OTHER PRIMITIVE CIMOLESTA -- DIDYMOCONIDAE -- PANTOLESTA -- APATOTHERIA -- TAENIODONTA |
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TILLODONTIAPANTODONTA -- 8 Creodonta and Carnivora -- CREODONTA -- CARNIVORA -- 9 Insectivora -- LEPTICTIDA -- LIPOTYPHLA -- 10 Archonta: Bats, Dermopterans, Primates, and Tree Shrews -- CHIROPTERA -- DERMOPTERA -- PRIMATES AND PLESIADAPIFORMES -- SCANDENTIA -- 11 “Edentates:� Xenarthra and Pholidota -- XENARTHRA -- PHOLIDOTA -- 12 Archaic Ungulates -- OLDEST UNGULATE RELATIVES -- CONDYLARTHRA: ARCHAIC UNGULATES -- ARCTOSTYLOPIDA -- MERIDIUNGULATA: ENDEMIC SOUTH AMERICAN UNGULATES -- DINOCERATA |
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13 Altungulata: Perissodactyls, Hyraxes, and TethytheresPERISSODACTYLA -- PAENUNGULATA -- 14 Cete and Artiodactyla -- CETE AND CETACEA -- ARTIODACTYLA -- 15 Anagalida: Rodents, Lagomorphs, and Their Relatives -- PRIMITIVE ASIAN ANAGALIDANS AND POSSIBLE ANAGALIDANS -- MACROSCELIDEA -- GLIRES -- 16 Reflections and Speculations on the Beginning of the Age of Mammals -- EARLY CENOZOIC MAMMAL RECORD -- SYNOPSIS OF PALEOCENE AND EOCENE MAMMALS -- A FINAL NOTE -- Literature Cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K |
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| Summary |
Annotation 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 |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-397) and index |
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English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Paleontology -- Cenozoic.
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Mammals -- History
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Mammals -- Evolution.
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Life -- Origin.
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NATURE -- Fossils.
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Cenozoic Geologic Period
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Life -- Origin
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Mammals
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Mammals -- Evolution
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Paleontology
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780801892219 |
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080189221X |
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9780801880223 |
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080188022X |
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0801884721 |
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9780801884726 |
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