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Tables of Contents for Evolution of Tertiary Mammals of North America
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List of contributors
vii
2
Preface
ix
0 Introduction
1
8
CHRISTINE M. JANIS
Part I: Overview of context for the evolution of North American Tertiary mammals
9
64
1 The chronological, climatic, and paleogeographic background to North American mammalian evolution
9
28
DONALD R. PROTHERO
2 Tertiary vegetation of North America as a context for mammalian evolution
37
29
SCOTT L. WING
3 The Pleistocene terrestrial mammal fauna of North America
66
7
RUSSELL W. GRAHAM
Part II: Carnivorous mammals
73
174
4 Carnivorous mammals
73
18
CHRISTINE M. JANIS
JON A. BASKIN
ANNALISA BERTA
JOHN J. FLYNN
GREGG F. GUNNELL
ROBERT M. HUNT, JR.
LARRY D. MARTIN
KATHLEEN MUNTHE
5 Creodonta
91
19
GREGG F. GUNNELL
6 Early Cenozoic Carnivora ("Miacoidea")
110
14
JOHN J. FLYNN
7 Canidae
124
20
KATHLEEN MUNTHE
8 Procyonidae
144
8
JON A. BASKIN
9 Mustelidae
152
22
JON A. BASKIN
10 Ursidae
174
22
ROBERT M. HUNT, JR.
11 Amphicyonidae
196
32
ROBERT M. HUNT, JR.
12 Nimravidae
228
8
LARRY D. MARTIN
13 Felidae
236
7
LARRY D. MARTIN
14 Hyaenidae
243
4
ANNALISA BERTA
Part III: Archaic ungulates and ungulatelike mammals
247
90
15 Archaic ungulates and ungulatelike mammals
247
13
CHRISTINE M. JANIS
J. DAVID ARCHIBALD
RICHARD L. CIFELLI
SPENCER G. LUCAS
CHARLES R. SCHAFF
ROBERT M. SCHOCH
THOMAS E. WILLIAMSON
16 Taeniodonta
260
8
SPENCER G. LUCAS
ROBERT M. SCHOCH
THOMAS E. WILLIAMSON
17 Tillodontia
268
6
SPENCER G. LUCAS
ROBERT M. SCHOCH
18 Pantodonta
274
14
SPENCER G. LUCAS
19 Dinocerata
284
8
SPENCER G. LUCAS
ROBERT M. SCHOCH
20 Archaic ungulates ("Condylarthra")
292
40
J. DAVID ARCHIBALD
21 Arctostylopida
332
5
RICHARD L. CIFELLI
CHARLES R. SCHAFF
Part IV: Artiodactyla
337
174
22 Artiodactyla
337
21
CHRISTINE M. JANIS
JAMES A. EFFINGER
JESSICA A. HARRISON
JAMES G. HONEY
DONALD G. KRON
BRUCE LANDER
EARL MANNING
DONALD R. PROTHERO
MARGARET S. STEVENS
RICHARD K. STUCKY
S. DAVID WEBB
DAVID B. WRIGHT
23 Eocene bunodont and bunoselenodont Artiodactyla ("dichobunids")
358
17
RICHARD K. STUCKY
24 Entelodontidae
375
6
JAMES A. EFFINGER
25 Anthracotheriidae
381
8
DONALD G. KRON
EARL MANNING
26 Tayassuidae
389
13
DAVID B. WRIGHT
27 Oreodontoidea
402
24
BRUCE LANDER
28 Oromerycidae
426
5
DONALD R. PROTHERO
29 Protoceratidae
431
8
DONALD R. PROTHERO
30 Camelidae
439
24
JAMES G. HONEY
JESSICA A. HARRISON
DONALD R. PROTHERO
MARGARET S. STEVENS
31 Hornless ruminants
463
14
S. DAVID WEBB
32 Dromomerycidae
477
14
CHRISTINE M. JANIS
EARL MANNING
33 Antilocapridae
491
17
CHRISTINE M. JANIS
EARL MANNING
34 Cervidae and Bovidae
508
3
S. DAVID WEBB
Part V: Perissodactyla and Proboscidea
511
112
35 Perissodactyla and Proboscidea
511
14
CHRISTINE M. JANIS
MATTHEW W. COLBERT
MARGERY C. COOMBS
W. DAVID LAMBERT
BRUCE J. MACFADDEN
BRYN J. MADER
DONALD R. PROTHERO
ROBERT M. SCHOCH
JEHESKEL SHOSHANI
WILLIAM P. WALL
36 Brontotheriidae
525
12
BRYN J. MADER
37 Equidae
537
23
BRUCE J. MACFADDEN
38 Chalicotherioidea
560
9
MARGERY C. COOMBS
39 Tapiroidea and other moropomorphs
569
14
MATTHEW W. COLBERT
ROBERT M. SCHOCH
40 Amynodontidae
583
6
WILLIAM P. WALL
41 Hyracodontidae
589
6
DONALD R. PROTHERO
42 Rhinocerotidae
595
11
DONALD R. PROTHERO
43 Proboscidea
606
17
W. DAVID LAMBERT
JEHESKEL SHOSHANI
Part VI: Eutheria incertae sedis
623
2
44 Eutheria incertae sedis: Mingotherium and Idiogenomys, with editors' inclusion of other problematical eutherian taxa
623
2
SPENCER G. LUCAS
ROBERT M. SCHOCH
Appendices
625
Appendix I: Tertiary mammal localities
625
30
Appendix II: References for locality listings
655
12
Appendix III: Museum acronyms
667