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Title Palaeoecology and Palaeoenvironments of Late Cenozoic Mammals : tributes to the career of C.S. (Rufus) Churcher.

Publication Info. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2018.

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Contents Cover; Contributors; Preface; C.S. 'Rufus' Churcher -- The man from Aldershot. K.L. Seymour; Churcher bibliography. K.L. Seymour; Diversity bottlenecks, oddball survivors, and negative keys. W.A. Akersten; Comparison of mammalian response to glacial-interglacial transitions in the middle and late Pleistocene. A.D. Barnosky, T.I. Rouse, E.A. Hadly, D.L. Wood, F.L. Keesing, and V.A. Schmidt; Review of Pleistocene zoogeography of prairie dogs (genus Cynomys) in western Canada with notes on their burrow architecture. J.A. Burns
Pleistocene and Holocene vertebrates as models for the study of evolutionary patterns. R.L. CarrollSelective mortality of mastodons (Mammut americanum) from the Port Kennedy Cave (Pleistocene; Irvingtonian), Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. E.B. Daeschler; Middle Pleistocene (early Rancholabrean) vertebrates and associated marine and non-marine invertebrates from Oldsmar, Pinellas County, Florida. P.F. Karrow, G.S. Morgan, R.W. Portell, E. Simons, and K. Auffenberg
Population structure of the late Pliocene (Blancan) zebra Equus simplicidens (Perissodactyla: Equidae) from the Hagerman Horse Quarry, Idaho. H.G. McDonaldCurrent status of North American Sangamonian local faunas and vertebrate taxa. J.D. Pinsof; Distribution and size variation in North American Short-faced bears, Arctodus simus. R.L. Richards, C.S. Churcher, and W.D. Turnbull; Origin of the vertebrate fossil sites near Medicine Hat, Alberta. A. MacS. Stalker; A preliminary report on the Carnivora of Porcupine Cave, Park County, Colorado. E. Anderson
Force generation by the jaw adductor musculature at different gapes in the Pleistocene sabretoothed felid Smilodon. H.N. BryantA review of Pleistocene giant armadillos (Mammalia, Xenarthra, Pampatheriidae). A.G. Edmund; A spectacular specimen of the elk-moose Cervalces scotti from Noble County, Indiana, U.S.A. J.O. Farlow and J. McClain; Tracking Ice Age felids: Identification of tracks of Panthera atrox from a cave in southern Missouri, U.S.A. R.W. Graham, J.O. Farlow, and J.E. Vandike; Pleistocene mammals of Dublin Gulch and the Mayo District, Yukon Territory. C.R. Harington
The masticatory apparatus of the American mastodon (Mammut americanum). R.S. LaubPleistocene caribou (Rangifer tarandus) in the eastern United States: New records and range extensions. J.N. McDonald, C.E. Ray, and F. Grady; Dental evolution and size change in the North American muskrat: Classification and tempo of a presumed phyletic sequence. R.A. Martin; Early Rancholabrean mammals from Salamander Cave, Black Hills, South Dakota. J.I. Mead, C. Manganaro, C.A. Repenning, and L.D. Agenbroad
Summary 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.
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Subject Churcher, C. S., 1928-
Paleontology -- Pleistocene.
Paleontology.
Chronological Term Pleistocene
Subject Paleoecology -- Pleistocene.
Paleoecology.
Chronological Term From 10 thousand to 2 million years ago
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Festschriften.
Festschriften.
Added Author Stewart, Kathlyn Moore.
Churcher, C. S., 1928-
Seymour, Kevin L.
Other Form: Print version: Palaeoecology and Palaeoenvironments of Late Cenozoic Mammals. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2018 0802007287 9780802007285 (DLC) 96161760 (OCoLC)34928416
ISBN 9781487574154 (electronic book)
1487574150 (electronic book)
9781487585594
0802007287
9780802007285