The Oligocene Rodents of North America
Author: Albert Elmer Wood
Publisher: Philadelphia : American Philosophical Society
Published: 1980
Total Pages: 74
ISBN-13: 9780871697059
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Author: Albert Elmer Wood
Publisher: Philadelphia : American Philosophical Society
Published: 1980
Total Pages: 74
ISBN-13: 9780871697059
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Albert E Wood
Publisher: American Philosophical Society Press
Published: 1980
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781422374894
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Author: William W. Korth
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Published: 1981
Total Pages: 30
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: William W. Korth
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2013-11-21
Total Pages: 315
ISBN-13: 1489914447
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNearly half of the known species of mammals alive today (more than 1600) are rodents or "gnawing mammals" (Nowak and Paradiso, 1983). The diversity of rodents is greater than that of any other order of mammals. Thus, it is not surprising that the fossil record of this order is extensive and fossil material of rodents from the Tertiary is known from all continents except Antarctica and Australia. The purpose of this book is to compile the published knowledge on fossil rodents from North America and present it in a way that is accessible to paleontologists and mammalogists interested in evolutionary studies of ro dents. The literature on fossil rodents is widely scattered between journals on paleontology and mammalogy and in-house publications of museums and universities. Currently, there is no single source that offers ready access to the literature on a specific family of rodents and its fossil history. This work is presented as a reference text that can be useful to specialists in rodents (fossil or recent) as weIl as mammalian paleontologists working on whole faunas. Because the diversity of rodents in the world is essentially limitless, any monograph that included all fossil rodents would similarly be limitless. Hence, this book is limited to the re cord of Tertiary rodents of North America. The several species of South American (caviomorph) rodents that invaded North America near the end of the Tertiary are also not included in this text.
Author: Albert E. Wood
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Published: 1980
Total Pages: 68
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Christine M. Janis
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1998-05-28
Total Pages: 712
ISBN-13: 9780521355193
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is designed as a source and reference for people interested in the history and fossil record of North American tertiary mammals. Each chapter covers a different family or order, and includes information on anatomical features, systematics, the distribution of the genera and species at different fossil localities, and a discussion of their paleobiology. Many of these groups have never been covered in this fashion before.
Author: Donald R. Prothero
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1996-06-13
Total Pages: 708
ISBN-13: 0521433878
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProvides the latest information in dating and correlation of the strata of late middle Eocene through early Oligocene age in North America.
Author: W. Patrick Luckett
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2013-11-11
Total Pages: 720
ISBN-13: 1489905391
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe order Rodentia is the most abundant and successful group of mammals, and it has been a focal point of attention for compar ative and evolutionary biologists for many years. In addition, rodents are the most commonly used experimental mammals for bio medical research, and they have played a central role in investi gations of the genetic and molecular mechanisms of speciation in mammals. During recent decades, a tremendous amount of new data from various aspects of the biology of living and fossil rodents has been accumulated by specialists from different disciplines, ranging from molecular biology to paleontology. Paradoxically, our understanding of the possible evolutionary relationships among different rodent families, as well as the possible affinities of rodents with other eutherian mammals, has not kept pace with this information "explosion. " This abundance of new biological data has not been incorporated into a broad synthesis of rodent phylo geny, in part because of the difficulty for any single student of rodent evolution to evaluate the phylogenetic significance of new findings from such diverse disciplines as paleontology, embryology, comparative anatomy, molecular biology, and cytogenetics. The origin and subsequent radiation of the order Rodentia were based primarily on the acquisition of a key character complex: specializations of the incisors, cheek teeth, and associated mus culoskeletal features of the jaws and skull for gnawing and chewing.
Author: Albert Elmer Wood
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Published: 1959
Total Pages: 428
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Published: 1910
Total Pages: 670
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