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A brief history of South American Metatherians = evolutionary contexts and intercontinental dispersals /

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Title/Author:	A brief history of South American Metatherians/ by Francisco J. Goin ... [et al.].
Reminder of title:	evolutionary contexts and intercontinental dispersals /
other author:	Goin, Francisco J.
Published:	Dordrecht :Springer Netherlands : : 2016.,
Description:	xi, 237 p. :ill., digital ; : 24 cm.;
Contained By:	Springer eBooks
Subject:	Paleogeography - South America. -
Online resource:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-7420-8
ISBN:	9789401774208

A brief history of South American Metatherians = evolutionary contexts and intercontinental dispersals /
A brief history of South American Metatheriansevolutionary contexts and intercontinental dispersals /[electronic resource] :by Francisco J. Goin ... [et al.]. - Dordrecht :Springer Netherlands :2016. - xi, 237 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm. - Springer earth system sciences,2197-9596. - Springer earth system sciences..

1. Introduction -- 2. South American Living Metatherians: Physiological Ecology and Constraints -- 3. Dispersal of Vertebrates from between the Americas, Antarctica, and Australia in the Late Cretaceous and Early Cenozoic -- 4. Evolutionary Contexts -- 5. Phylogeny and Diversity of South American Metatherians -- 6. Paleobiology and Adaptations of Paleogene Metatherians -- 7. Milestones in the Evolution of South American Metatherians.

This book summarizes major aspects of the evolution of South American metatherians, including their epistemologic, phylogenetic, biogeographic, faunal, tectonic, paleoclimatic, and metabolic contexts. A brief overview of the evolution of each major South American lineage ("Ameridelphia", Sparassodonta, Didelphimorphia, Paucituberculata, Microbiotheria, and Polydolopimorphia) is provided. It is argued that due to physiological constraints, metatherian evolution closely followed the conditions imposed by global temperatures. In general terms, during the Paleocene and the early Eocene multiple radiations of metatherian lineages occurred, with many adaptive types exploiting insectivorous, frugivorous, and omnivorous adaptive zones. In turn, a mixture of generalized and specialized types, the latter mainly exploiting carnivorous and granivorous-folivorous adaptive zones, characterized the second half of the Cenozoic. In both periods, climate was the critical driver of their radiation and turnovers.

ISBN: 9789401774208

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-94-017-7420-8doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

1102383
Paleogeography
--South America.

LC Class. No.: QE501.4.P3

Dewey Class. No.: 551.78

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