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Containing individual chapters devoted to a particular family or order - each discussing anatomical features, systematics, and palaeobiology - this book is a unique compendium and synthesis of more than 100 years of discovery. It is intended to serve as a starting point and reference for continuing studies in faunal diversification and change, and for questions such as how changing biogeography and climates influenced the evolution of mammalian communities. It also contains a valuable uniform summary of the distribution in time and space of each species at fossil localities.
Contents: Section 1: Overview of the context for the evolution of North American Tertiary Mammals; Section 2: Carnivorous mammals: Section 3: Archaic ungulates and ungulatelike mammals; Section 4: Artiodactyla; Section 5: Perissodactyla and proboscidae; Section 6: Eutheria incertae sedis; Appendix I: Tertiary mammal localities; Appendix II: References for locality listings.