Mesozoic mammals from South America and their forerunners /

Mesozoic mammals from South America and their forerunners /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Rougier, Guillermo W., author.
Imprint:	Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2021]
Description:	1 online resource.
Language:	English
Series:	Springer earth system sciences Springer earth system sciences.
Subject:	Mammals, Fossil -- South America. Paleontology -- Mesozoic. Mammals, Fossil. Mesozoic Geologic Period. Paleontology. South America. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12611085

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Other authors / contributors:	Martinelli, Agustín G., author. Forasiepi, Analía M., author.
ISBN:	9783030638627 3030638626 303063860X 9783030638603 9783030638610 3030638618
Digital file characteristics:	text file PDF
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references. Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 25, 2021).
Summary:	This book summarizes the most relevant published paleontological information, supplemented by our own original work, on the record of Mesozoic mammals' evolution, their close ancestors and their immediate descendants. Mammals evolved in a systematically diverse world, amidst a dynamic geography that is at the root of the 6,500 species living today. Fossils of Mesozoic mammals, while rare and often incomplete, are key to understanding how mammals have evolved over more than 200 million years. Mesozoic mammals and their close relatives occur in a few dozen localities from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Bolivia, and Peru spanning from the Mid- Triassic to the Late Cretaceous, with some lineages surviving the cataclysmic end of the Cretaceous period, into the Cenozoic of Argentina. There are roughly 25 recognized mammalian species distributed in several distinctive lineages, including australosphenidans, multituberculates, gondwanatherians, eutriconodonts, amphilestids and dryolestoids, among others. With its focus on diversity, systematics, phylogeny, and their impact on the evolution of mammals, there is no similar book currently available.
Other form:	Original 303063860X 9783030638603
Standard no.:	10.1007/978-3-030-63862-7

Table of Contents:

Introduction
General aspects on non-mammaliaform cynodonts and the origin of mammals
The radiation of Mesozoic Mammals
Australosphenidans
Triconodontians
Dryolestoideans
Stem therians
Multituberculates and Gondwanatherians
Other records
The South American Mesozoic record and early evolution of mammals.