THE RED CORRAL (PROCTOR RANCH) LOCAL FAUNA (PLIOCENE, BLANCAN) OF OLDHAM COUNTY, TEXAS
Author: GERALD E. SCHULTZ
Publisher: New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science
Published: 2016-01-01
Total Pages: 68
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Ice Age Cave Faunas of North America
Author: Blaine W. Schubert
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2003-11-10
Total Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780253342683
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book gathers the findings of a number of studies on North American cave paleontology. Although not intended to be all-inclusive, Ice Age Cave Faunas of North America contains contributions that range from overviews of the significance of cave fossils to reports about new localities and studies of specific vertebrate groups. These essays describe how cave remains record the evolutionary patterns of organisms and their biogeography, how they can help reconstruct past ecosystems and climatic fluctuations, how they provide an important record of the evolution of modern ecosystems, and even how some of these caves contain traces of human activity. The book's eclectic nature should appeal to students, professional and amateur paleontologists, biologists, geologists, speleologists, and cavers. The contributors are Ticul Alvarez, Joaquin Arroyo-Cabrales, Christopher J. Bell, Larry L. Coats, Jennifer Glennon, Wulf Gose, Frederick Grady, Russell Wm. Graham, Timothy H. Heaton, Carmen J. Jans-Langel, Ernest L. Lundelius, Jr., H. Gregory McDonald, Jim I. Mead, Oscar J. Polaco, Blaine W. Schubert, Holmes A. Semken, Jr., and Alisa J. Winkler.
Biostratigraphy and Vertebrate Paleontology of the San Timoteo Badlands, Southern California
Author: L. Barry Albright
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2000-03-08
Total Pages: 155
ISBN-13: 0520098366
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe author describes forty-two fossil taxa recovered during a study of the San Timoteo Badlands that used magnetobiostratigraphy to develop a temporal framework for addressing the tectonic evolution of southern California over the last 6 million years. For the Pliocene, small mammals are an effective means of correlating a magnetostratigraphy to the Geomagnetic Polarity Time Scale when radioisotopic dates are unobtainable.
U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin
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Published: 1983
Total Pages: 44
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKFossil Salamanders of North America
Author: J. Alan Holman
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2006-08-22
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 0253347327
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe book concludes with a discussion of the study of fossil salamanders as it relates to the development of a realistic phylogeny and classification of the group.
Late Pliocene (Blancan) Nonmarine and Volcanic Stratigraphy and Microvertebrates of Lake Tecopa, California
Author: Berry James
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Published: 1985
Total Pages: 204
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKFossil Frogs and Toads of North America
Author: J. Alan Holman
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2003-12-25
Total Pages: 302
ISBN-13: 9780253000569
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe heart of this book consists of detailed systematic accounts of the known fossil frogs and toads (anurans) of North America and their localities. Extinct fossil frogs and toads are fully discussed and illustrated, and in some cases are re-diagnosed and re-described. For fossil taxa still living, the book gives the modern characteristics, ecological attributes, and modern ranges, and includes illustrations of diagnostic skeletal elements. The volume begins with an overview of the anurans and anuran studies, a general account of the skeleton and bones, and a discussion of the early evolution of the Anura, along with the formal classification of anuran taxonomic groups found in the North American fossil record. The third part of the book presents an epoch-by-epoch discussion of Mesozoic, Tertiary, and Pleistocene anurans, the classification and phylogeny of the anurans, and a comprehensive list of references.
Annotated Bibliography of Studies on the Geology, Geochemistry, Mineral Resources, and Geophysical Character of the Early Mesozoic Basins of the Eastern United States, 1880-1984
Author: Jacob Margolis
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Published: 1986
Total Pages: 604
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn annotated bibliography covering early Mesozoic geology of Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, and other Eastern States. Bibliography is indexed by author, topic, and geographic area.
Fossil Snakes of North America
Author: J. Alan Holman
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 412
ISBN-13: 9780253337214
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This volume includes detailed accounts of the morphology and distribution of the fossil snakes of North America and also remarks on their evolutionary, zoogeographic, and paleoecological patterns. The heart of the book consists of detailed systematic accounts of the known fossil snakes of North America and their localities. Extinct fossil taxa are discussed and illustrated, and many are re-described on the basis of new information. The book provides illustrations of diagnostic vertebrae and criteria for the identification of presently living fossil snake taxa as well as descriptions of the modern characteristics and ranges of these species." "Color photographs in the 16-page insert present a catalog of representative living snake species." --Book Jacket.
Late Cretaceous and Cenozoic Mammals of North America
Author: Michael O. Woodburne
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 413
ISBN-13: 0231130406
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book places into modern context the information by which North American mammalian paleontologists recognize, divide, calibrate, and discuss intervals of mammalian evolution known as North American Land Mammal Ages. It incorporates new information on the systematic biology of the fossil record and utilizes the many recent advances in geochronologic methods and their results. The book describes the increasingly highly resolved stratigraphy into which all available temporally significant data and applications are integrated. Extensive temporal coverage includes the Lancian part of the Late Cretaceous, and geographical coverage includes information from Mexico, an integral part of the North American fauna, past and present.
