The beginning of the age of mammals

The beginning of the age of mammals / Kenneth D. Rose.

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Main Author: Rose, Kenneth David, 1949-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.
Subjects:
From 65 million years ago
Paleontology > Cenozoic.
Mammals > History.
Mammals > Evolution.
Life > Origin.
NATURE > Fossils.
Cenozoic Geologic Period
Life > Origin
Mammals
Mammals > Evolution
Paleontology
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1 Introduction
  • THE EARLY CENOZIC MAMMALIAN RADIATION
  • TIMING OF THE CROWN-THERIAN RADIATION
  • MAMMALIAN PHYLOGENY, INTERRELATIONSHIPS, AND CLASSIFICATION
  • GEOCHRONOLOGY AND BIOCHRONOLOGY OF THE EARLY CENOZOIC
  • PALEOGEOGRAPHIC SETTING DURING THE BEGINNING OF THE AGE OF MAMMALS
  • PALEOCENE-EOCENE CLIMATE AND FLORA
  • ORGANIZATION OF THE VOLUME
  • 2 Mammalian Skeletal Structure and Adaptations
  • SKULL
  • DENTITION
  • POSTCRANIAL SKELETON
  • SKELETAL ADAPTATIONS
  • 3 The Origin of Mammals
  • WHAT IS A MAMMAL?THE EVOLUTIONARY TRANSITION TO MAMMALS
  • 4 Synopsis of Mesozoic Mammal Evolution
  • HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
  • THE OLDEST MAMMALS
  • DOCODONTA
  • MULTITUBERCULATA
  • EUTRICONODONTA
  • SYMMETRODONTS
  • EUPANTOTHERES
  • TRIBOSPHENIC MAMMALS
  • MESOZOIC MAMMALS OF UNCERTAIN AFFINITY
  • 5 Metatheria: Marsupials and Their Relatives
  • BASAL METATHERIANS
  • PRIMITIVE MARSUPIALS
  • 6 Earliest Eutherian Mammals
  • 7 Cimolesta
  • DIDELPHODONTA AND OTHER PRIMITIVE CIMOLESTA
  • DIDYMOCONIDAE
  • PANTOLESTA
  • APATOTHERIA
  • TAENIODONTA
  • TILLODONTIAPANTODONTA
  • 8 Creodonta and Carnivora
  • CREODONTA
  • CARNIVORA
  • 9 Insectivora
  • LEPTICTIDA
  • LIPOTYPHLA
  • 10 Archonta: Bats, Dermopterans, Primates, and Tree Shrews
  • CHIROPTERA
  • DERMOPTERA
  • PRIMATES AND PLESIADAPIFORMES
  • SCANDENTIA
  • 11 “Edentates:â€? Xenarthra and Pholidota
  • XENARTHRA
  • PHOLIDOTA
  • 12 Archaic Ungulates
  • OLDEST UNGULATE RELATIVES
  • CONDYLARTHRA: ARCHAIC UNGULATES
  • ARCTOSTYLOPIDA
  • MERIDIUNGULATA: ENDEMIC SOUTH AMERICAN UNGULATES
  • DINOCERATA
  • 13 Altungulata: Perissodactyls, Hyraxes, and TethytheresPERISSODACTYLA
  • PAENUNGULATA
  • 14 Cete and Artiodactyla
  • CETE AND CETACEA
  • ARTIODACTYLA
  • 15 Anagalida: Rodents, Lagomorphs, and Their Relatives
  • PRIMITIVE ASIAN ANAGALIDANS AND POSSIBLE ANAGALIDANS
  • MACROSCELIDEA
  • GLIRES
  • 16 Reflections and Speculations on the Beginning of the Age of Mammals
  • EARLY CENOZOIC MAMMAL RECORD
  • SYNOPSIS OF PALEOCENE AND EOCENE MAMMALS
  • A FINAL NOTE
  • Literature Cited
  • Index
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