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Eocene Biodiversity

Unusual Occurrences and Rarely Sampled Habitats

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Editors:
  1. Gregg F. Gunnell

    1. Museum of Paleontology, Ann Arbor, USA

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Part of the book series: Topics in Geobiology (TGBI, volume 18)

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
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  2. An Updated Review of the Fish Faunas From the Green River Formation, the World’s Most Productive Freshwater Lagerstätten

    • Lance Grande
    Pages 1-38
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  3. Paleontological Investigations at the Eocene Locality of Mahenge in North-Central Tanzania, East Africa

    • Terry Harrison, Charles P. Msuya, Alison M. Murray, Bonnie Fine Jacobs, Ana Maria Báez, Roland Mundil et al.
    Pages 39-74
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  4. Early Wasatchian Mammals From the Gulf Coastal Plain of Mississippi: Biostratigraphic and Paleobiogeographic Implications

    • K. Christopher Beard, Mary R. Dawson
    Pages 75-94
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  5. Paleocene-Eocene Microvertebrates in Freshwater Limestones of the Willwood Formation, Clarks Fork Basin, Wyoming

    • Jonathan I. Bloch, Gabriel J. Bowen
    Pages 95-129
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  6. Unusual Vertebrate Microfaunas From the Willwood Formation, Early Eocene of the Bighorn Basin, Wyoming

    • Mary T. Silcox, Kenneth D. Rose
    Pages 131-164
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  7. Stratigraphy and Taphonomy of Grizzly Buttes, Bridger Formation, and the Middle Eocene of Wyoming

    • John P. Alexander, Benjamin J. Burger
    Pages 165-196
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  8. Taphonomic Analysis of the Messel Formation (Germany)

    • Jens Lorenz Franzen
    Pages 197-214
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  9. Paleobiological Implications of the Messel Mammalian Assemblage

    • Gerhard Storch
    Pages 215-235
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  10. The Eocene Mammalian Fauna of Chambi (Tunisia) in Its Geological Context

    • Jean-Louis Hartenberger, Jean-Yves Crochet, Claude Martinez, Bernard Marandat, Bernard Sigé
    Pages 237-250
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  11. Gandhera Quarry, A Unique Mammalian Faunal Assemblage From the Early Eocene of Baluchistan (Pakistan)

    • Philip D. Gingerich, Muhammad Arif, Intizar Hussain Khan, Munir Ul-Haq, Jonathan I. Bloch, William C. Clyde et al.
    Pages 251-262
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  12. Paleoecology and Biostratigraphy of Marginal Marine Gulf Coast Eocene Vertebrate Localities

    • James W. Westgate
    Pages 263-297
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  13. Taphonomic Interpretation of Gnat-Out-of-Hell, an Early Uintan Small Mammal Locality in the Uinta Formation, Utah

    • Meg L. Thornton, D. Tab Rasmussen
    Pages 299-316
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  14. A Mass Death Accumulation of Coryphodon anthracoideus (Mammalia: Pantodonta) at Roehler’s Coryphodon Catastrophe Quarry (Lower Eocene, Wasatch Formation), Washakie Basin, Wyoming

    • Elizabeth McGee
    Pages 317-333
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  15. Meniscotherium Mass-Death Assemblages

    • Thomas E. Williamson
    Pages 335-360
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  16. Taphonomy, Fauna, and Depositional Environment of the Omomys Quarry, an Unusual Accumulation From the Bridger Formation (Middle Eocene) of Southwestern Wyoming (USA)

    • Paul C. Murphey, Lisa L. Torick, Emily S. Bray, Robert Chandler, Emmett Evanoff
    Pages 361-402
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  17. Basin Margins, Biodiversity, Evolutionary Innovation, and the Origin of New Taxa

    • Gregg F. Gunnell, William S. Bartels
    Pages 403-432
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  18. Back Matter

    Pages 433-442
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About this book

Initially, this work was designed to document and study the diversification of modern mammalian groups and was quite successful and satisfying. However, as field and laboratory work continued, there began to develop a suspicion that not all of the Eocene story was being told. It became apparent that most fossil samples, especially those from the American West, were derived from similar preservational circumstances and similar depositional settings. A program was initiated to look for other potential sources of fossil samples, either from non-traditional lithologies or from geographic areas that were not typically sampled. As this program of research grew it began to demonstrate that different lithologies and different geographic areas told different stories from those that had been developed based on more typical faunal assemblages.
This book is conceived as an introduction to non-traditional Eocene fossils samples, and as a place to document and discuss features of these fossil assemblages that are rare or that come from rarely represented habitats.

Reviews

`The papers in this volume are of consistently high quality and each will be a valuable contribution to the field. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in the Ecocene specifically of the history of global biodiversity through geologic time.'
Quarterly Review of Biology, 77:4 (2002)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Museum of Paleontology, Ann Arbor, USA

    Gregg F. Gunnell

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Eocene Biodiversity

  • Book Subtitle: Unusual Occurrences and Rarely Sampled Habitats

  • Editors: Gregg F. Gunnell

  • Series Title: Topics in Geobiology

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-1271-4

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers 2001

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-46528-4Published: 30 September 2001

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4613-5471-0Published: 24 September 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4615-1271-4Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0275-0120

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXI, 442

  • Topics: Paleontology, Atmospheric Sciences, Evolutionary Biology

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