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

• Main Author: Defler, Thomas (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Topics in Geobiology, 42
• Subjects: 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...

Table of Contents:

• 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.