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The Tertiary Record of Rodents in North America

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  • © 1994

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Authors:
  1. William W. Korth

    1. Rochester Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology, Penfield, USA

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Part of the book series: Topics in Geobiology (TGBI, volume 12)

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Table of contents (25 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Rodents—What, Where, and When

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Introduction

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      Pages 3-5

    3. Specialized Cranial and Dental Anatomy of Rodents

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      Pages 7-21

    4. Origin of Rodents

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      Pages 23-25

    5. Classification of Rodents

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      Pages 27-34

  3. Systematic Description of Rodent Families

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      Pages 35-35
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    2. Ischyromyidae

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      Pages 37-54

    3. Sciuravidae

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      Pages 55-66

    4. Cylindrodontidae

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      Pages 67-76

    5. Protoptychidae

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      Pages 77-83

    6. Aplodontidae

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      Pages 85-98

    7. Mylagaulidae

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      Pages 99-109

    8. Sciuridae

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      Pages 111-124

    9. Eutypomyidae

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      Pages 125-133

    10. Castoridae

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      Pages 135-148

    11. Eomyidae

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      Pages 149-162

    12. Heliscomyidae

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      Pages 163-171

    13. Heteromyidae

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      Pages 173-188

    14. Florentiamyidae

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      Pages 189-197
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About this book

Nearly half of the known species of mammals alive today (more than 1600) are rodents or "gnawing mammals" (Nowak and Paradiso, 1983). The diversity of rodents is greater than that of any other order of mammals. Thus, it is not surprising that the fossil record of this order is extensive and fossil material of rodents from the Tertiary is known from all continents except Antarctica and Australia. The purpose of this book is to compile the published knowledge on fossil rodents from North America and present it in a way that is accessible to paleontologists and mammalogists interested in evolutionary studies of ro­ dents. The literature on fossil rodents is widely scattered between journals on paleontology and mammalogy and in-house publications of museums and universities. Currently, there is no single source that offers ready access to the literature on a specific family of rodents and its fossil history. This work is presented as a reference text that can be useful to specialists in rodents (fossil or recent) as weIl as mammalian paleontologists working on whole faunas. Because the diversity of rodents in the world is essentially limitless, any monograph that included all fossil rodents would similarly be limitless. Hence, this book is limited to the re cord of Tertiary rodents of North America. The several species of South American (caviomorph) rodents that invaded North America near the end of the Tertiary are also not included in this text.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Rochester Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology, Penfield, USA

    William W. Korth

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Tertiary Record of Rodents in North America

  • Authors: William W. Korth

  • Series Title: Topics in Geobiology

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-1444-6

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1994

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-44696-2Published: 31 May 1994

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-1446-0Published: 31 July 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4899-1444-6Published: 21 November 2013

  • Series ISSN: 0275-0120

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 320

  • Topics: Evolutionary Biology, Zoology

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