Eocene biodiversity : unusual occurrences and rarely sampled habitats / edited by Gregg F. Gunnell.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gunnell, Gregg F.

Series:

Topics in geobiology ; v. 18.

Topics in geobiology ; v. 18

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vertebrates, Fossil.

Paleontology--Eocene.

Paleontology.

Physical Description:

xxi, 442 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 2001.

Contents:

Chapter 1 An Updated Review of the Fish Faunas From the Green River Formation, the World's Most Productive Freshwater Lagerstatten / Lance Grande

2. The Green River System as a Paleogene Great Lakes Complex 2

3. An Updated Look at the Taxonomic Diversity of the Green River Fish Faunas 5

4. Summary of Inter-Lake Faunal Comparisons 32

5. Comment on the Biodiversity of the Green River Fish Fauna 33

6. Future Studies 34

Chapter 2 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 Baez, Roland Mundil, Kenneth R. Ludwig

2. History of Paleontological Research 40

3. Research Area and Geological Context 42

4. Stratigraphy 48

5. Lake Paleoecology 51

6. Age of the Fossil Beds 52

7. Renewed Fieldwork at Mahenge 54

8. Other Localities in the Singida Area 55

9. The Mahenge Fauna and Flora 57

Chapter 3 Early Wasatchian Mammals From the Gulf Coastal Plain of Mississippi: Biostratigraphic and Paleobiogeographic Implications / K. Christopher Beard, Mary R. Dawson

2. The Mammalian Component of the Red Hot Local Fauna 77

Chapter 4 Paleocene-Eocene Microvertebrates in Freshwater Limestones of the Willwood Formation, Clarks Fork Basin, Wyoming / Jonathan I. Bloch, Gabriel J. Bowen

2. Geology 97

3. Fauna 104

4. Depositional Environment 107

5. Contribution of Limestone Fauna 116

Chapter 5 Unusual Vertebrate Microfaunas From the Willwood Formation, Early Eocene of the Bighorn Basin, Wyoming / Mary T. Silcox, Kenneth D. Rose

2. Materials and Methods 133

3. Synopsis of Quarry Sites 135

4. Taphonomy 149

5. Compositional Comparisons 155

6. Future Work 159

Chapter 6 Stratigraphy and Taphonomy of Grizzly Buttes, Bridger Formation, and the Middle Eocene of Wyoming / John P. Alexander, Benjamin J. Burger

2. Geology 170

3. Taphonomy 176

4. Notharctid Primates 186

Chapter 7 Taphonomic Analysis of the Messel Formation (Germany) / Jens Lorenz Franzen

2. Messel Vertebrates 198

3. Geology and Paleoclimate 200

4. Taphonomy 206

Chapter 8 Paleobiological Implications of the Messel Mammalian Assemblage / Gerhard Storch

2. Small Omnivorous-Insectivorous Forest Floor Dwellers 216

3. Aerial Insectivory 219

4. Arboreal Life 225

5. Reproduction and Ontogeny 227

Chapter 9 The Eocene Mammalian Fauna of Chambi (Tunisia) in Its Geological Context / Jean-Louis Hartenberger, Jean-Yves Crochet, Claude Martinez, Bernard Marandat, Bernard Sige

2. Paleogeography and Biostratigraphy 238

3. Continental Paleogene Series 238

4. Summary of Chambi Vertebrates 245

Chapter 10 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, Gregg F. Gunnell

2. Geologic Setting 252

3. Collecting Techniques 254

4. Taxonomic Composition 256

5. Bones at Gandhera Quarry 257

Chapter 11 Paleoecology and Biostratigraphy of Marginal Marine Gulf Coast Eocene Vertebrate Localities / James W. Westgate

2. Wilcox Group 266

3. Claiborne Group 268

4. Barnwell Group 277

5. Jackson Group 284

Chapter 12 Taphonomic Interpretation of Gnat-Out-of-Hell, an Early Uintan Small Mammal Locality in the Uinta Formation, Utah / Meg L. Thornton, D. Tab Rasmussen

2. Taphonomy of Predator Assemblages 304

3. Methods 306

4. Results 307

Chapter 13 A Mass Death Accumulation of Coryphodon anthracoideus (Mammalia: Pantodonta) at Roehler's Coryphodon Catastrophe Quarry (Lower Eocene, Wasatch Formation), Washakie Basin, Wyoming / Elizabeth McGee

2. Regional Geology and Paleontology 318

3. Taphonomy 320

Chapter 14 Meniscotherium Mass-Death Assemblages / Thomas E. Williamson

2. Ucmp Locality V71237 337

3. Nmmnh Locality L-201 337

4. Nmmnh Locality L-203 343

6. Associated Faunas 348

7. Population Samples of Meniscotherium 349

Chapter 15 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

2. Materials and Methods 364

3. Geology 366

4. The Omomys Quarry Fossil Assemblage 369

5. Taphonomy of the Omomys Quarry 384

Chapter 16 Basin Margins, Biodiversity, Evolutionary Innovation, and the Origin of New Taxa / Gregg F. Gunnell, William S. Bartels

2. Geology of South Pass, Wyoming 404

3. The Bridgerian Land Mammal Age 406

4. Basin Margins 408

5. Recognition of Ancient Basin Margin Environments 409

6. Basin Margin Faunas 410

7. Anachronism and Cladogensis 417

8. Speciation 423.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0306465280

OCLC:

45270467