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Academic & Professional Books  Mammals  Insectivores to Ungulates  Horses, Tapirs & Rhinoceroses

Fossil Horses of South America Phylogeny, Systemics and Ecology

By: José Luis Prado(Author), María Teresa Alberdi(Author)
150 pages, 23 colour & 21 b/w photos and illustrations, tables
Publisher: Springer Nature
Fossil Horses of South America
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Fossil Horses of South America provides an update on the phylogeny, systematics and ecology of horses in South America based on data provided over the past three decades. The contemporary South American mammalian communities were shaped by the emergence of the Isthmus of Panama and by the profound climatic oscillations during the Pleistocene. Horses were a conspicuous group of immigrant mammals from North America that arrived in South America during the Pleistocene. This group is represented by 2 genera, Hippidion and Equus, which include small species (Hippidion devillei, H. saldiasi, Equus andium and E. insulatus) and large forms (E. neogeus and H. principale). Both groups arrived in South America via 2 different routes. One model designed to explain this migration indicates that the small forms used the Andes corridor, while larger horses used the eastern route and arrived through some coastal areas. Molecular dating (ancient DNA) suggests that the South American horses separated from the North American taxa (caballines and the New World stilt-legged horse) after 3.6 – 3.2 Ma, consistent with the final formation of the Panamanian Isthmus. Recent studies of stable isotopes in these horses indicate an extensive range of 13C values cover closed woodlands to C4 grasslands. This plasticity agrees with the hypothesis that generalist species and open biome specialist species from North America indicate a positive migration through South America.

Contents

1. Introduction
2. Taxonomy nomenclature
3. Collections around the word
4. Systematic and phylogeny
5. Biostratigraphy and biogeography
6. Ancient feeding ecology and niche differentiation of Pleistocene horses
7. Horses and megafauna extinction

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Biography

Professor José Luis Prado is internationally known for his contributions to the study of fossil horses and paleobiology in South America. He has published over 140 articles in leading international journals, including Nature, Science, PNAS, BMC Ecology and Evolutionary Ecology. He has also extensive experience managing large research grants. He is frequently invited to present his research at international conferences. His research has made substantial contributions to our understanding of horse evolution, particularly in relation to diversification and extinction processes.

Dr. María Teresa Alberdi is an internationally respected paleontologist who has extensive experience in South America. She currently works at the National Museum of Natural Sciences (CSIC) in Spain, where she was a Vice-Director and also head of the Paleontology department. She is active at the Natural Resources Scientific Committee and is a reviewer for a number of leading paleontology and vertebrates journals.

By: José Luis Prado(Author), María Teresa Alberdi(Author)
150 pages, 23 colour & 21 b/w photos and illustrations, tables
Publisher: Springer Nature
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