Horned armadillos and rafting monkeys : the fascinating fossil mammals of South America / Darin A. Croft ; illustrated by Velizar Simeonovski.
South America is home to some of the most distinctive mammals on Earth'giant armadillos, tiny anteaters, the world's largest rodent, and its smallest deer. But the continent once supported a variety of other equally intriguing mammals that have no close living relatives: armored mammals wi...
Saved in:
| Online Access: |
Full text (Emerson users only) |
|---|---|
| Main Author: | |
| Contributors: | |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Bloomington :
Indiana University Press,
[2016]
|
| Series: | Life of the past.
|
| Subjects: | |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Time and Geography
- 2. Introduction to Mammals
- Part I: Early South American Phase and Trans-Atlantic Dispersal Interval (TADI)
- Part II: Late South American Phase
- Part III: The Great American Biotic Interchange (GABI) and the Interamerican Phase
- Further Reading
- Appendices
- Glossary
- Index
- A
- D
- H
- N
- Q
- U
- X
- A
- D
- M
- S
- V
- 16. Chapadmalal, Argentina
- Appendix 1. Alphabetical List of Species
- Appendix 2. Families and Higher Taxonomic Groups
- Appendix 3. Mammals of Tiupampa, Bolivia
- Appendix 4. Mammals of Itaboraí, Brazil
- Appendix 5. Middle Eocene ("Barrancan") Mammals of Gran Barranca, Argentina
- Appendix 6. Mammals of La Gran Hondonada, Argentina
- Appendix 7. Mammals of Tinguiririca, Chile
- Appendix 8. Mammals of Salla, Bolivia
- Appendix 9. Mammals of Chucal, Chile
- Appendix 10. Mammals of Coastal Santa Cruz, Argentina
- Appendix 11. Mammals of La Venta, Colombia
- Appendix 12. Mammals of Quebrada Honda, Bolivia
- Appendix 13. Mammals of Arroyo Chasicó, Argentina
- Appendix 14. Mammals of Acre (Brazil and Peru)
- Appendix 15. Mammals of Catamarca, Argentina
- Appendix 16. Mammals of Chapadmalal, Argentina
- Appendix 17. Mammals of Tarija, Bolivia
- 14. Acre, Brazil
- 15. Catamarca, Argentina
- 17. Tarija, Bolivia
- 10. Santa Cruz, Argentina
- 11. La Venta, Colombia
- 12. Quebrada Honda, Bolivia
- 13. Arroyo Chasicó, Argentina
- 7. Tinguiririca, Chile
- 6. La Gran Hondonada, Argentina
- 8. Salla, Bolivia
- 9. Chucal, Chile
- 3. Tiupampa, Bolivia
- 4. Itaboraí, Brazil
- 5. Gran Barranca, Argentina
- 5.1 Sebecus icaeorhinus
- 5.2 Niolamia argentina and Caroloameghinia mater
- 5.3 Utaetus buccatus
- 5.4 Thomashuxleya rostrata
- 5.5 Notopithecus adapinus
- 4.1 Epidolops ameghinoi.
- 4.2 Colbertia magellanica
- 4.3 Protolipterna ellipsodontoides
- 4.4 Carodnia vieirai
- 3.1 Pucadelphys andinus
- 3.2 Mayulestes ferox
- 3.3 Molinodus suarezi
- 3.4 Alcidedorbignya inopinata
- 9.1 Parapropalaehoplophorus septentrionalis
- 9.2 Peltephilus ferox
- 9.3 Theosodon lallemanti
- 9.4 Nesodon imbricatus
- 9.5 Altitypotherium chucalensis
- 8.1 Paraborhyaena boliviana
- 8.2 Branisella boliviana
- 8.3 Anayatherium fortis
- 8.4 Trachytherus alloxus
- 8.5 Pyrotherium romeroi
- 6.1 Otronia muhlbergi
- 6.2 Pseudhyrax eutrachytheroides
- 6.3 Puelia plicata
- 6.4 Trigonostylops wortmani
- 7.1 Klohnia charrieri
- 7.2 Pseudoglyptodon chilensis
- 7.3 Andemys termasi
- 7.4 Santiagorothia chiliensis
- 13.1 Protomegalonyx chasicoensis
- 13.2 Prolagostomus and Lycopsis viverensis
- 13.3 Neobrachytherium ullumense
- 13.4 Chasicotherium rothi
- 13.5 Typotheriopsis chasicoensis
- 12.1 Acyon myctoderos
- 12.2 Hondalagus altiplanensis
- 12.3 Guiomys unica
- 12.4 Hemihegetotherium trilobus
- 11.1 Neotamandua borealis
- 11.2 Cebupithecia sarmientoi
- 11.3 Megadolodus molariformis and Purussaurus neivensis
- 11.4 Miocochilius anamopodus
- 11.5 Granastrapotherium snorki
- 10.1 Necrolestes patagonensis
- 10.2 Borhyaena tuberata
- 10.3 Hapalops indifferens
- 10.4 Steiromys duplicatus
- 10.5 Thoatherium minusculum
- 10.6 Interatherium robustum
- 17.1 Cuvieronius hyodon
- 17.2 Glyptodon reticulatus
- 17.3 Doedicurus clavicaudatus
- 17.4 Megatherium americanum
- 17.5 Protocyon tarijensis and Glossotherium tarijense
- 17.6 Smilodon populator
- 17.7 Onohippidium devillei
- 17.8 Macrauchenia patachonica
- 17.9 Toxodon platensis
- 15.1 Andalgalornis steulleti
- 15.2 Thylacosmilus atrox
- 15.3 Vassallia maxima and Argentavis magnificens
- 15.4 Pronothrotherium typicum
- 15.5 Cyonasua brevirostris.
- 14.1 Neoglyptatelus originalis
- 14.2 Thalassocnus natans
- 14.3 Phoberomys burmeisteri
- 14.4 Trigodon
- 16.1 Sparassocynus derivatus
- 16.2 Macroeuphractus outesi
- 16.3 Scelidotherium parodii
- 16.4 Platygonus marplatensis
- 16.5 Paedotherium typicum.