Fossil Horses of South America Phylogeny, Systemics and Ecology /

• Main Authors: Prado, José Luis (Author), Alberdi, María Teresa (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: The Latin American Studies Book Series,
• Subjects: Earth sciences.; Paleontology.; Geobiology.; Animal ecology.; Earth Sciences.; Biogeosciences.; Animal Ecology.

This book provides an update on the phylogeny, systematics and ecology of horses in South America based on data provided over the past three decades. The contemporary South American mammalian communities were shaped by the emergence of the Isthmus of Panama and by the profound climatic oscillations...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Taxonomy nomenclature
• Collections around the word
• Systematic and phylogeny
• Iostratigraphy and biogeography
• Ancient feeding ecology and niche differentiation of Pleistocene horses
• Horses and megafauna extinction.