History of Terrestrial Mammals in South America How South American Mammalian Fauna Changed from the Mesozoic to Recent Times /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Defler, Thomas (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2019.
• Σειρά: Topics in Geobiology, 42
• Θέματα: Geobiology.; Evolutionary biology.; Paleontology .; Geoecology.; Environmental geology.; Animal systematics.; Animal taxonomy.; Biogeosciences.; Evolutionary Biology.; Paleontology.; Geoecology/Natural Processes.; Animal Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography.

This book takes a non-technical approach in covering the evolution of South American mammalian fauna throughout geological history, and discusses how South America has changed due to mammalian invasions. Unlike other works on the subject, this book attempts to answer several crucial questions that o...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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.