The Princeton field guide to prehistoric mammals /
After the mass extinction of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, mammals became the dominant terrestrial life form on our planet. Roaming the earth were spectacular beasts such as saber-toothed cats, giant mastodonts, immense ground sloths, and gigantic giraffe-like rhinoceroses. This book is an ill...
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Table of Contents:
- 1. The age of mammals
- 2. The origin and early evolution of mammals
- 3. Marsupials : pouched mammals
- 4. Placental mammals (Eutheria)
- 5. Xenarthra : sloths, anteaters, and armadillos
- 6. Afrotheria : elephants, hyraxes, sea cows, aardvarks, and their relatives
- 7. Euarchontoglires : Euarchonta. Primates, tree shrews, and colugos
- 8. Euarchontoglires : Glires. Rodents and lagomorphs
- 9. Laurasiatheria : insectivores. Order Eulipotyphla and other insectivorous mammals
- 10. Laurasiatheria : Chiroptera. Bats
- 11. Laurasiatheria : Pholidota. Pangolins, or "scaly anteaters"
- 12. Laurasiatheria : Carnivora and Creodonta. Predatory mammals
- 13. Laurasiatheria : Ungulata. Hoofed mammals and their relatives
- 14. Laurasiatheria : Artiodactyla. "Even-toed" hoofed mammals : pigs, hippos, whales, camels, ruminants, and their extinct relatives
- 15. Laurasiatheria : Perissodactyla. "Odd-toed" hoofed mammals : horses, rhinos, tapirs, and their extinct relatives
- 16. Laurasiatheria : Meridiungulata. South American hoofed mammals
- 17. Uintatheres, pantodonts, taeniodonts, and tillodonts
- 18. Mammalian evolution and extinction.