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Paleoecology and Paleoenvironments

Kathlyn Stewart, Kevin Seymour (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

675 Seiten

1996
University of Toronto Press (Verlag)
978-0-8020-0728-5 (ISBN)

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This unique volume of thirty essays, by fifty-three internationally known scholars, honours C.S. (Rufus) Churcher, the distinguished Canadian palaeontologist. The papers focus on late Cenozoic mammals in North America and Africa and provide both site-specific descriptions of faunas and their associated geological contexts, and more general syntheses of regional palaeoenvironments and biogeography. The volume provides a much-needed overview of current research. The stature of the researchers who have contributed to the volume, and the breadth of the material presented, is a reflection of Churcher's diverse research interests. The first section contains eleven papers on the palaeoenvironment and palaeoecology of Quaternary mammals in North America; the second section has 9 contributions describing faunas and morphological analyses of North American Quaternary mammals; and the final section contains nine papers on the palaeoecology and palaeoenvironments of late Cenozoic mammals of Africa. In this final section, Alan Gentry pays tribute to Churcher by naming a species after him: Budorcas churcheri.
The volume contains individual discussions of North American fossil prairie dogs, mastodons, zebras, short-faced bears, sabre cats, lions, giant armadillos, elk-moose, caribou and muskrats, as well as African hyaenas, zebras, hipparion horses, antelopes, rodents, and giraffes.

Kathlyn M. Stewart is a research scientist at the Canadian Museum of Nature, Ottawa. Kevin. Seymour is a curatorial assistant, Department of Vertebrate Palaeontology, Royal Ontario Museum.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	23.4.1996
Verlagsort	Toronto
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	1300 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Mineralogie / Paläontologie
Themenwelt	Technik ► Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie
ISBN-10	0-8020-0728-7 / 0802007287
ISBN-13	978-0-8020-0728-5 / 9780802007285
Zustand	Neuware