Evolution of Tertiary Mammals of North America

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Author(s): Janis, Christine M. Scott, Kathleen M. Jacobs, Louis L.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year: 1998

Language: English
Pages: 691
Tags: vertebrate

Index......Page 6
Preface......Page 10
Contributors......Page 8
Introduction......Page 12
The chronological, climatic, and paleogeographic background to......Page 19
Tertiary vegetation of North America as a context for mammalian......Page 47
The Pleistocene terrestrial mammal fauna of......Page 76
Carnivorous mammals......Page 83
Creodonta......Page 101
Early Cenozoic Carnivora ("Miacoidea")......Page 120
Canidae......Page 134
Procyonidae......Page 154
Mustelidae......Page 162
Ursidae......Page 184
Amphicyonidae......Page 206
Nimravidae......Page 238
Felidae......Page 246
Hyaenidae......Page 253
Archaic ungulates and ungulatelike mammals......Page 257
Taeniodonta......Page 270
Tillodontia......Page 278
Pantodonta......Page 284
Dinocerata......Page 294
Archaic ungulates ("Condylarthra")......Page 302
Arctostylopida......Page 342
Artiodactyla......Page 347
Eocene bunodont and bunoselenodont Artiodactyla("dichobunids")......Page 368
Entelodontidae......Page 385
Anthracotheriidae......Page 391
Tayassuidae......Page 399
Oreodontoidea......Page 412
Oromerycidae......Page 436
Protoceratidae......Page 441
Camelidae......Page 449
Hornless ruminants......Page 473
Dromomerycidae......Page 487
Antilocapridae......Page 501
Cervidae and Bovidae......Page 518
Perissodactyla and Proboscidea......Page 521
Brontotheriidae......Page 535
Equidae......Page 547
Chalicotherioidea......Page 570
Tapiroidea and other moropomorphs......Page 579
Amynodontidae......Page 593
Hyracodontidae......Page 599
Rhinocerotidae......Page 605
Proboscidea......Page 616
Eutheria incertae sedis: Mingotherium and ldiogenomys, witheditors' inclusion of other problematical eutherian taxa......Page 633
Appendix I: Tertiary mammal localities......Page 635
Appendix II: References for locality listings......Page 665
Appendix ill: Museum acronyms......Page 677