The Paleontology of Gran Barranca: Evolution and Environmental Change through the Middle Cenozoic of Patagonia [Hardcover]

Richard H. Madden (Editor), Alfredo A. Carlini (Editor), Maria Guiomar Vucetich (Editor), Richard F. Kay (Editor)

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Hardcover: 458 pages
Publisher: Cambridge University Press; 1 edition (July 26 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0521872413
ISBN-13: 978-0521872416
Product Dimensions: 27.7 x 22.1 x 2.5 cm
Shipping Weight: 1.4 Kg
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,092,410 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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'... the first detailed treatment of the vertebrate faunal sequence at Gran Barranca, providing important new evidence about biotic diversity and evolution in the native species ... Academic researchers and advanced students in vertebrate paleontology, geochronology, sedimentology and paleoprimatology will value this wealth of new information.' The Eggs EGU Newsletter (the-eggs.org)

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Gran Barranca in Patagonia exposes the most complete sequence of middle Cenozoic paleofaunas in South America. It is the only continuous continental fossil record of the Southern Hemisphere between 42 and 18 million years ago, when climates at high latitudes transitioned from warm humid to cold dry conditions. This volume presents the geochronology of the fossil mammal sequence and a compilation of the latest studies of the stratigraphy, sedimentology, mammals, plants, invertebrates and trace fossils. It is also the first detailed treatment of the vertebrate faunal sequence at Gran Barranca, providing important new evidence about biotic diversity and evolution in the native species. A revised taxonomy allows a reevaluation of the origination and extinction of herbivorous mammals, marsupials, and xenarthrans, and the earliest occurrence of rodents and primates in southern latitudes. Academic researchers and advanced students in vertebrate paleontology, geochronology, sedimentology and paleoprimatology will value this wealth of new information.

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