Cenozoic mammals of Africa /

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Imprint:Berkeley : University of California Press, c2010.
Description:xxi, 986 p. : ill., maps ; 29 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8139687
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Other authors / contributors:Werdelin, Lars.
Sanders, William Joseph.
ISBN:9780520257214 (cloth : alk. paper)
0520257219 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780520945425 (e-book : alk. paper)
0520945425 (e-book : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Physical And Temporal Setting: 1. Tectonics and Geomorphology of Africa during the Phanerozoic / Timothy C. Partridge
  • 2. Chronology of Paleogene Mammal Localities / Erik R. Seiffert
  • 3. Chronology of Neogene Mammal Localities / Lars Werdelin
  • 4. Global and African Regional Climate during the Cenozoic / Sarah J. Feakins and Peter B. Demenocal
  • 5. A Review of the Cenozoic Vegetation History of Africa / Bonnie F. Jacobs, Aaron D. Pan, and Christopher R. Scotese
  • The Fauna: Taxonomic Accounts. PART ONE Metatheria: 6 Marsupialia / Gregg F. Gunnell
  • PART TWO. Afrotheria: 7 Ptolemaiida / Gregg F. Gunnell, Philip D. Gingerich, and Patricia A. Holroyd
  • 8. Macroscelidea / Patricia A. Holroyd
  • 9. Tenrecoidea / Robert J. Asher
  • 10. Tubulidentata / Patricia A. Holroyd
  • 11. Bibymalagasia (Mammalia Incertae Sedis) / Lars Werdelin
  • 12. Embrithopoda / William J. Sanders, D. Tab Rasmussen, John Kappelman
  • 13. Hyracoidea / D. Tab Rasmussen, Mercedes Gutiérrez
  • 14. Sirenia / Daryl P. Domning, Iyad S. Zalmout, and Philip D. Gingerich
  • 15. Proboscidea / William J. Sanders ... [et al.]
  • 16. Paleogene "Insectivores" / Erik R. Seiffert
  • PART THREE. Euarchontoglires. 17. Rodentia / Alisa J. Winkler, Christiane Denys, and D. Margaret T. Avery
  • 18. Lagomorpha / Alisa J. Winkler and D. Margaret Avery
  • 19. Paleogene prosimians / Marc Godinot
  • 20. Later tertiary lorisiformes
  • 21. Subfossil Lemurs of Madagascar / Laurie R. Godfrey, William L. Jungers, and David A. Burney
  • 22. Paleogene anthropoids / Erik R. Seiffert ... [et al.]
  • 23. Cercopithecoidea / Nina G. Jablonski and Stephen Frost
  • 24. Dendropithecoidea, proconsuloidea, and hominoidea / Terry Harrison
  • 25. Hominini / Laura M. Maclatchy ... [et al.]
  • PART FOUR. Laurasiatheria. 26. Creodonta / Margaret E. Lewis and Michael Morlo
  • 27. Prionogalidae (Mammalia Incertae Sedis) / Lars Werdelin and Susanne M. Cote
  • 28. Primitive ungulates ("condylarthra" and stem paenungulata) / Emmanuel Gheerbrant
  • 29. Neogene insectivora / Percy M. Butler
  • 30. Chiroptera / Gregg F. Gunnell
  • 31. Pholidota / Timothy J. Gaudin
  • 32. Carnivora / Lars Werdelin and Stéphane Peigné
  • 33. Chalicotheriidae / Margery C. Coombs and Susanne M. Cote
  • 34. Rhinocerotidae / Denis Geraads
  • 35. Equidae / Raymond L. Bernor ... [et al.]
  • 36. Tragulidae / Denis Geraads
  • 37. Pecora Incertae Sedis / Susanne M. Cote
  • 38. Bovidae / Alan W. Gentry
  • 39. Giraffoidea / John M. Harris, Nikos Solounias, and Denis Geraads
  • 40. Cervidae / Alan W. Gentry
  • 41. Camelidae / John M. Harris, Denis Geraads, and Nikos Solounias
  • 42. Suoidea / Laura C. Bishop
  • 43. Anthracotheriidae / Patricia A. Holroyd ... [et al.]
  • 44. Hippopotamidae / Eleanor Weston and Jean-Renaud Boisserie
  • 45. Cetacea / Philip D. Gingerich. Broader perspectives. 46. Systematics of endemic African mammals / Robert J. Asher and Erik R. Seiffert
  • 47. Mammal species richness in Africa / Peter Andrews and Eileen M. O'Brien
  • 48. Stable carbon and oxygen isotopes in East African mammals: modern and fossil / Thure E. Cerling ... [et al.].