History of Terrestrial Mammals in South America

History of Terrestrial Mammals in South America

How South American Mammalian Fauna Changed from the Mesozoic to Recent Times

Defler, Thomas

Springer International Publishing AG

01/2019

372

Dura

Inglês

9783319984483

15 a 20 dias

966


ebook

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Chapter1: Introduction.- Chapter2: Ancient mammals of Gondwanan South America.- Chapter3: Early Cenozoic mammals in South America.- Chapter4: Marsupials and other metatheres of South America.- Chapter5: The native ungulates of South America.- Chapter6: The xenarthrans-armadillos, glyptodonts, anteaters, sloths.- Chapter7: The Caviomorphs - First South American Rodents.- Chapter8: The Platyrrhine Monkeys.- Chapter9: An Antarctic Eocene Mammalian Community.- Chapter10: La Venta: A Miocene Colombian Mammalian Community.- Chapter11: The Genesis of the Modern Amazon River Basin and its Role in Mammalian Evolution.- Chapter12: Mammalian Invasion of the Caribbean Islands.- Chapter13: The Great American Biotic Interchange.- Chapter14: Pleistocene Mammal Communities and their Extinction.- Chapter15: The Modern Mammals of South America
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South American paleobiology;Mammalian evolution;Evolution of South American mammals;Ancient South American mammals;Great American Interchange;Mammals in the Mesozoic;Extinction of mammals;The Age of Mammals;Mammalian diversity;Mammals in the Cenozoic;Caviomorphs