Description |
xxii, 385 pages : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-370) and index. |
Contents |
Climate change, biodiversity, and ecosystem health : the past as a key to the future / Anthony D. Barnosky -- The Pleistocene fossils of Porcupine Cave, Colorado : spatial distribution and taphonomic overview / Anthony D. Barnosky ... [et al.] -- The modern environment, flora, and vegetation of South Park, Colorado / David J. Cooper -- The historical context of Porcupine Cave : American Indians, Spaniards, government surveyors, prospectors, ranchers, cavers, and paleontologists in South Park, Colorado / Geraldine J. Rasmussen, Kirk Branson and John O. McKelvy -- The geology and speleogenesis of Porcupine Cave / Robert G. Raynolds -- Magnetostratigraphic constraints on the age of Pleistocene fossiliferous strata in Porcupine Cave's DMNH Velvet Room excavation / S. Julio Friedmann and Robert G. Raynolds -- Age and correlation of key fossil sites in Porcupine Cave / Anthony D. Barnosky and Christopher J. Bell -- Biology of wood rats as cave dwellers and collectors / Robert B. Finley Jr. -- Paleopathology and taphonomic modification of mammalian bones from Porcupine Cave / C. Suzane Ware and Elaine Anderson -- A summary of fossilized species in Porcupine Cave / Anthony D. Barnosky -- Synopsis of the herpetofauna from Porcupine Cave / Christopher J. Bell, Jason J. Head and Jim I. Mead -- The early and middle Pleistocene avifauna from Porcupine Cave / Steven D. Emslie -- The Carnivora from Porcupine Cave / Elaine Anderson -- Middle Pleistocene (Irvingtonian) Ochotona (Lagomorpha: Ochotonidae) from Porcupine Cave / Jim I. Mead, Margarita Erbajeva and Sandra L. Swift -- Leporidae of the DMNH Velvet Room excavations and Mark's Sink / Colleen N. Baxter -- |
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Identification of miscellaneous mammals from the Pit locality : including Soricidae, Leporidae, Geomyoidea / Anthony D. Barnosky and Samantha S.B. Hopkins -- Systematics and faunal dynamics of fossil squirrels from Porcupine Cave / H. Thomas Goodwin -- Fossil wood rats of Porcupine Cave : tectonic or climatic controls? / Charles A. Repenning -- Arvicoline rodents from Porcupine Cave : identification, spatial distribution, taxonomic assemblages, and biochronologic significance / Christopher J. Bell, Charles A. Repenning and Anthony D. Barnosky -- Pliocene and Pleistocene horses from Porcupine Cave / Eric Scott -- Pleistocene (Irvingtonian) Artiodactyla from Porcupine Cave / Jim I. Mead and Louis H. Taylor -- Irvingtonian mammals from the Badger Room in Porcupine Cave : age, taphonomy, climate, and ecology / Alan B. Shabel ... [et al.] -- Faunal dynamics of small mammals through the Pit sequence / Anthony D. Barnosky -- Stable carbon and oxygen isotope analysis of marmot cheek teeth from the Pit locality / Robert S. Feranec -- Assessing the effect of middle Pleistocene climate change on Marmota populations from the Pit locality / Anthony D. Barnosky, Matthew H. Kaplan and Marc A. Carrasco -- Effect of climate change on terrestrial vertebrate biodiversity -- Anthony D. Barnosky. |
Subject |
Vertebrates, Fossil -- Colorado -- Park County.
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Vertebrates, Fossil. |
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Colorado -- Park County. |
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Paleontology -- Pleistocene.
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Paleontology. |
Chronological Term |
Pleistocene |
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Paleoecology -- Colorado -- Park County.
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Paleoecology. |
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Paleoecology -- Pleistocene.
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Biodiversity -- Climatic factors -- Colorado -- Park County -- History.
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Biodiversity -- Climatic factors. |
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History. |
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Animals, Fossil -- Colorado -- Park County.
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Animals, Fossil. |
Added Author |
Barnosky, Anthony D.
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Added Title |
Porcupine Cave fauna from Colorado |
ISBN |
0520240820 alkaline paper |
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