Evolution of Tertiary Mammals of North America: Volume 1, Terrestrial Carnivores, Ungulates, and Ungulate like Mammals

This book is a unique compendium and synthesis of the cumulative knowledge of more than 100 years of discovery and study of North American tertiary mammals. The potentially most valuable contribution of this book is the detailed information of the distribution in time and space of each species at fossil localities, recorded in a uniform scheme, so that each chapter provides the same level of information. Thirty six chapters are devoted to a particular family or order, written by leading North American authorities, including discussion of anatomical features, systematics, and paleobiology. Three introductory chapters summarize information on the geological time scale, Tertiary vegetation, and Pleistocene events, and four summary chapters integrate systematic and biogeographic information for higher taxa. This book will serve as a unique data base for continuing studies in faunal diversification and change, and for questions such as how changing biogeography and climates influenced the evolution of mammalian communities. It will be an invaluable addition to the libraries of paleontologists and zoologists. Index......Page 6 Preface......Page 10 Contributors......Page 8 Introduction......Page 12 The chronological, climatic, and paleogeographic background to......Page 19 Tertiary vegetation of North America as a context for mammalian......Page 47 The Pleistocene terrestrial mammal fauna of......Page 76 Carnivorous mammals......Page 83 Creodonta......Page 101 Early Cenozoic Carnivora ("Miacoidea")......Page 120 Canidae......Page 134 Procyonidae......Page 154 Mustelidae......Page 162 Ursidae......Page 184 Amphicyonidae......Page 206 Nimravidae......Page 238 Felidae......Page 246 Hyaenidae......Page 253 Archaic ungulates and ungulatelike mammals......Page 257 Taeniodonta......Page 270 Tillodontia......Page 278 Pantodonta......Page 284 Dinocerata......Page 294 Archaic ungulates ("Condylarthra")......Page 302 Arctostylopida......Page 342 Artiodactyla......Page 347 Eocene bunodont and bunoselenodont Artiodactyla("dichobunids")......Page 368 Entelodontidae......Page 385 Anthracotheriidae......Page 391 Tayassuidae......Page 399 Oreodontoidea......Page 412 Oromerycidae......Page 436 Protoceratidae......Page 441 Camelidae......Page 449 Hornless ruminants......Page 473 Dromomerycidae......Page 487 Antilocapridae......Page 501 Cervidae and Bovidae......Page 518 Perissodactyla and Proboscidea......Page 521 Brontotheriidae......Page 535 Equidae......Page 547 Chalicotherioidea......Page 570 Tapiroidea and other moropomorphs......Page 579 Amynodontidae......Page 593 Hyracodontidae......Page 599 Rhinocerotidae......Page 605 Proboscidea......Page 616 Eutheria incertae sedis: Mingotherium and ldiogenomys, witheditors' inclusion of other problematical eutherian taxa......Page 633 Appendix I: Tertiary mammal localities......Page 635 Appendix II: References for locality listings......Page 665 Appendix ill: Museum acronyms......Page 677 This volume provides a compilation of descriptive taxonomy and paleobiology of North American Tertiary mammals, with special emphasis on providing a compilation of faunal locality data for each taxon arranged in a standardized format.