Palaeoecology and Palaeoenvironments of Late Cenozoic Mammals : Tributes to the Career of C.S. (Rufus) Churcher Paperback / softback
by Kathlyn Stewart, Kevin Seymour
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This unique volume of thirty essays, by fifty-three internationally known scholars, honours C.S. (Rufus) Churcher, the distinguished Canadian palaeontologist.
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.
The volume provides a much-needed overview of current research. The stature of the researchers who have contributed to the volume, and the breadth of the material presented, is a reflection of Churcher’s diverse research interests.
The first section contains eleven papers on the palaeoenvironment and palaeoecology of Quaternary mammals in North America; the second section has 9 contributions describing faunas and morphological analyses of North American Quaternary mammals; and the final section contains nine papers on the palaeoecology and palaeoenvironments of late Cenozoic mammals of Africa.
In this final section, Alan Gentry pays tribute to Churcher by naming a species after him: Budorcas churcheri.
The volume contains individual discussions of North American fossil prairie dogs, mastodons, zebras, short-faced bears, sabre cats, lions, giant armadillos, elk-moose, caribou and muskrats, as well as African hyaenas, zebras, hipparion horses, antelopes, rodents, and giraffes.
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- Publisher:University of Toronto Press
- Publication Date:15/12/1996
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:712 pages
- Publisher:University of Toronto Press
- Publication Date:15/12/1996
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- ISBN:9781487585594