Author: Giuseppe LeonardiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Annotated Atlas of South America Tetrapod Footprints
Author: Giuseppe LeonardiAnnotated Atlas of South America Tetrapod Footprints (Devonian to Holocene) with an Appendix on Mexico and Central America
Author: Giuseppe LeonardiAnnotated Atlas of South American Tetrapod Footprints (Devonian to Holocene)
Author: Mesozoic Mammals from South America and Their Forerunners
Author: Guillermo W. RougierPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030638626
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
This book summarizes the most relevant published paleontological information, supplemented by our own original work, on the record of Mesozoic mammals’ evolution, their close ancestors and their immediate descendants. Mammals evolved in a systematically diverse world, amidst a dynamic geography that is at the root of the 6,500 species living today. Fossils of Mesozoic mammals, while rare and often incomplete, are key to understanding how mammals have evolved over more than 200 million years. Mesozoic mammals and their close relatives occur in a few dozen localities from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Bolivia, and Peru spanning from the Mid- Triassic to the Late Cretaceous, with some lineages surviving the cataclysmic end of the Cretaceous period, into the Cenozoic of Argentina. There are roughly 25 recognized mammalian species distributed in several distinctive lineages, including australosphenidans, multituberculates, gondwanatherians, eutriconodonts, amphilestids and dryolestoids, among others. With its focus on diversity, systematics, phylogeny, and their impact on the evolution of mammals, there is no similar book currently available.
The Age of Dinosaurs in South America
Author: Fernando E. NovasPublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253352894
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
The remarkable dinosaur faunas of South America
Neogene Mammals
Author: Spencer G. LucasPublisher: New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Neogene Mammals: New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 44
Dinosaur Tracks from Brazil
Author: Giuseppe LeonardiPublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 025305723X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
Dinosaur Tracks from Brazil is the first full-length study of dinosaurs in Brazil. Some 500 dinosaur trackways from the Cretaceous period still remain in the Rio do Peixe basins of Brazil, making it one of the largest trackways in the world. Veteran paleontologists Giuseppe Leonardi and Ismar de Souza Carvalho painstakingly document and analyze each track found at 37 individual sites and at approximately 96 stratigraphic levels. Richly illustrated and containing a wealth of data, Leonardi and de Souza Carvalho brilliantly reconstruct the taxonomic groups of the dinosaurs from the area and show how they moved across the alluvial fans, meandering rivers, and shallow lakes of ancient Gondwana. Dinosaur Tracks from Brazil is essential reading for paleontologists.
Dinosaur Tracks of Mesozoic Basins in Brazil
Author: Ismar de Souza CarvalhoPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031563557
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
South American Sauropodomorph Dinosaurs
Author: Alejandro OteroPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030959597
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
Sauropodomorpha Huene 1932 is one of the most successful groups of dinosaurs, including the most abundant and diverse herbivorous forms with a worldwide record, extending from the late Triassic to the late Cretaceous. Sauropodomorphs comprise a diverse assemblage of early forms (traditionally called “prosauropods”) and the well-established clade Sauropoda Marsh 1878. Early sauropodomorphs were small to medium sized forms, with long necks and reduced skulls, mostly bipeds and omnivores and were abundant in continental environments in the Late Triassic and Early Jurassic. With more than 150 valid species and a worldwide distribution, Sauropoda includes the dominant herbivorous dinosaurs, from the Middle Jurassic to the Late Cretaceous. Its unique body plan, characterized by gigantic size, graviportal locomotion, long necks and tails, and reduced skulls, made this group an undisputed icon in popular culture since the 19th century. In South America, the sauropodomorph record is particularly rich and abundant, and many species have shed light to understand important milestones in the evolutionary history of this group of dinosaurs. The origin of Sauropodomorpha, the transition to Sauropoda, and the diversification of its most successful evolutionary lineages are largely exemplified by the South American fossil record. In this contribution, we synthetize the diversity of sauropodomorphs from South America, including data on their geographic and stratigraphic provenance, phylogenetics, paleobiology, taphonomy and behaviour, underscoring their significance within the context of sauropodomorph evolution.
Dinosaurs and Other Reptiles from the Mesozoic of Mexico
Author: Héctor E. Rivera-SylvaPublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253012716
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
This overview of dinosaur discoveries in Mexico synthesizes current information about the geography and environment of the region during the Mesozoic when it was the western margin of the ancient continent of Pangea. The book summarizes research on various groups, including turtles, lepidosauromorphs, plesiosaurs, crocodyliforms, pterosaurs, and last but not least, dinosaurs. In addition, chapters focus on trackways and other trace fossils and on K/P boundary (the Chicxulub crater, beneath the Gulf of Mexico, has been hypothesized as the site of the boloid impact that killed off the dinosaurs). Dinosaurs and Other Reptiles from the Mesozoic of Mexico is an up-to-date, informative volume on an area that has not been comprehensively described until now.