Megafauna : Giant Beasts of Pleistocene South America /

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More than 10,000 years ago, spectacularly large mammals roamed the pampas and jungles of South America. This book tells the story of these great beasts during and just after the Pleistocene, the geological epoch marked by the great ice ages. The authors describe the history and way of life of these...

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Détails bibliographiques
Autres auteurs: De Iuliis, Gerardo, 1959-, Vizcaíno, Sergio F., Fariña, Richard A.
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2012]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Pleistocene Geologic Epoch.
Paleobiology.
Mammals, Fossil.
Geology, Stratigraphic.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Zoology > Mammals.
NATURE > Fossils.
Stratigraphie > Pleistocene.
Paleobiologie > Amerique du Sud.
Mammiferes fossiles > Amerique du Sud.
Geology, Stratigraphic > Pleistocene.
Paleobiology > South America.
Mammals, Fossil > South America.
South America.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Paleontology and science : what is science?
  • Distinguished paleomammalogists
  • Geological and ecological history of South America during the Cenozoic era
  • North American late Cenozoic faunas
  • The Great American Biotic Interchange and Pleistocene habitats in South America
  • Bestiary
  • Physics of the giants
  • General paleoecology
  • Extinction.

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