Lothagam : the dawn of humanity in eastern Africa /
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| Imprint: | New York : Columbia University Press, c2003. |
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| Description: | vi, 678 p. : ill. ; 29 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4818892 |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Geology, Paleosols, and Dating
- 2.1. Stratigraphy and Depositional History of the Lothagam Sequence
- 2.2. Miocene and Pliocene Paleosols of Lothagam
- 2.3. Numerical Age Control for the Miocene-Pliocene Succession at Lothagam, a Hominoid-bearing Sequence in the Northern Kenya Rift
- 3. Crustacea and Pisces
- 3.1. Fossil Crabs (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura) from Lothagam
- 3.2. Fossil Fish Remains from Mio-Policene Deposits at Lothagam, Kenya
- 4. Reptilia and Aves
- 4.1. Fossil Turtles from Lothagam
- 4.2. Late Miocene-Early Pliocene Crocodilian Fauna of Lothagam, Southwest Turkana Basin, Kenya
- 4.3. Lothagam Birds
- 5. Lagomorpha and Rodentia
- Rodents and Lagomorphs from the Miocene and Pliocene of Lothagam, Northern Kenya
- 6. Primates
- 6.1. Cercopithecidae from Lothagam
- 6.2. The Lothagam Hominids
- 7. Carnivora
- Mio-Pliocene Carnivora from Lothagam, Kenya
- 8. Proboscidea and Tubulidentata
- 8.1. Elephantoidea from Lothagam
- 8.2. Deinotheres from the Logatham Succession
- 8.3. Fossil Aardvarks from the Lothagam Beds
- 9. Perissodactyla
- 9.1. Lothagam Rhinocerotidae
- 9.2. Systematics and Evolutionary Biology of the Late Miocene and Early Pliocene Hipparionine Equids from Lothagam, Kenya
- 10. Hippopotamidae and Suidae
- 10.1. Fossil Hippopotamidae from Lothagam
- 10.2. Lothagam Suidae
- 11. Ruminantia
- 11.1. Lothagam Giraffids
- 11.2. Bovidae from the Lothagam Succession
- 12. Isotopes
- 12.1. Stable Isotope Ecology of Northern Kenya, with Emphasis on the Turkana Basin
- 12.2. Isotope Paleoecology of the Nawata and Nachukui Formations at Lothagam, Turkana Basin, Kenya
- 13. Lothagam: Its Significance and Contributions
- Appendix. Notes on the Reconstructions of Fossil Vertebrates from Lothagam
- Contributors
- Index
