Late Cretaceous and Cenozoic Mammals of North America

Biostratigraphy and Geochronology

Buch | Hardcover

400 Seiten

2004
Columbia University Press (Verlag)
978-0-231-13040-0 (ISBN)

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This 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.

Michael Woodburne is professor emeritus of geology, Department of Earth Sciences, University of California, Riverside, and honorary curator of geology, Museum of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff.

Contents Preface, by M. O. Woodburne List of Contributors Definitions Introduction, by M. O. Woodburne Principles and Procedures, by M. O. Woodburne Mammalian Biochronology of the Latest Cretaceous, by R. L. Cifelli,* J. J. Eberle, D. L. Lofgren, J. A. Lillegraven, and W. A. Clemen Paleocene Biochronology: The Puercan Through Clarkforkian Land Mammal Ages, by D. L. Lofgren,* J. A. Lillegraven, W. A. Clemens, P. D. Gingerich, and T. E. Wil Wasatchian Through Duchesnean Biochronology, by P. Robinson,* G. F. Gunnell, S. L. Walsh, W. C. Clyde, J. E. Storer, R. K. Stuck The Chadronian, Orellan, and Whitneyan North American Land Mammal Ages, by D. R. Prothero and R. J. Emry Mammalian Biochronology of the Arikareean Through Hemphillian Interval (Late Oligocene Through Early Pliocene Epochs), by R. H. Tedford,* J. E. Storer, L. B. Albright III, C. C. Swisher III, A. T. Barno The Blancan, Irvingtonian, and Rancholabrean Mammal Ages, by E. L. Lundelius Jr. and C. R. Bell,* A. D. Barnosky, R. W. Graham, E. H. Lindsay Global Events and the North American Mammalian Biochronology, by M. O. Woodburne Indexes Systematic Index Subject Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	21.4.2004
Zusatzinfo	33 illus
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	216 x 279 mm
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geologie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Mineralogie / Paläontologie
ISBN-10	0-231-13040-6 / 0231130406
ISBN-13	978-0-231-13040-0 / 9780231130400
Zustand	Neuware