Cenozoic mammals of land and sea : tributes to the career of Clayton E. Ray / Robert J. Emry, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ray, Clayton Edward

Emry, Robert J.

Series:

Smithsonian contributions to paleobiology ; no. 93.

Smithsonian contributions to paleobiology ; no. 93

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mammals, Fossil.

Paleontology--Cenozoic.

Paleontology.

Cenozoic Geologic Period.

Genre:

Festschriften

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (v, 372 pages) : illustrations, maps

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Press, 2002.

Contents:

Biography and bibliography of Clayton Edward Ray / Ralph E. Eshelman, Robert J. Emry, Daryl P. Domning, and David J. Bohaska

Late Rancholabrean mammals from southernmost Florida, and the neotropical influences in Florida Pleistocene faunas / Gary S. Morgan

The Basicranium of giant wombat Phascolonus gigas Owen (Vombatidae: Marsupialia) and its significance in phylogeny / Richard H. Tedford

Vassallia maxima Castellanos, 1946 (Mammalia: Xenarthra: Pampatheriidae), from Puerta del Corral Quemado (Late Miocene to Early Pliocene), Catamarca Province, Argentina / Gerardo De Iuliis and A. Gordon Edmund

Additional records of the giant beaver, Castoroides, from the mid-South: Alabama, Tennessee, and South Carolina / Paul W. Parmalee and Russel Wm. Graham

The northernmost occurrence of the Pleistocene Vampire bat Desmodus stocki Jones (Chiroptera: Phyllostomatidae: Desmodontinae) in eastern North America / Frederick Grady, Joaquín Arroyo-Cabrales, and E. Ray Garton

Second record of the badger Taxidea taxus (Schreber) from the Pleistocene of Kentucky and its paleoecological implications / H. Gregory McDonald

Bison Antiquus from Kenora, Ontario, and notes on the evolution of North American Holocene Bison / Jerry N. McDonald and George E. Lammers

The terrestrial posture of desmostylians / Daryl P. Domning

The Miocene pinniped Desmatophoca oregonensis Condon, 1906 (Mammalia: Carnivora), from the Astoria Formation, Oregon / Thomas A. Deméré and Annalisa Berta

The fossil monk seal Pontophoca sarmatica (Alekseev) (Mammalia: Phocidae: Monachinae) from the Miocene of Eastern Europe / Irina A. Koretsky and Dan Grigorescu

A primitive seal (Mammalia: Phocidae) from the Early Middle Miocene of Central Paratethys / Irina A. Koretsky and Peter Holec

Paleontology of the Late Oligocene Ashley and Chandler Bridge Formations of South Carolina, 1: Paleogene pinniped remains; The oldest known seal (Carnovora: Phocidae) / Irina A. Koretsky and Albert E. Sanders

Simocetus rayi (Odontoceti: Simocetidae, New Family): a bizarre new archaic Oligocene dolphin from the eastern North Pacific / R. Ewan Fordyce

Odobenocetops peruvianus, the walrus-convergent delphinoid (Mammalia: Cetacea) from the Early Pliocene of Peru / Christian de Muizon, Daryl P. Domning, and Darlene R. Ketten

Paleopathology in a Miocene kentriodontid dolphin (Cetacea: Odontoceti) / Susan D. Dawson and Michael D. Gottfried

Paleontology of the Late Oligocene Ashley and Chandler Bridge Formations of South Carolina, 2: Micromysticetus rothausena, a primitive cetothridd mysticete (Mammalia: Cetacea) / Albert E. Sanders and Lawrence G. Barnes

Balaena ricei, a new species of bowhead whale from the Yorktown Formation (Pliocene) of Hampton, Virginia / James W. Westgate and Frank C. Whitmore, Jr.

Paleontology of the Late Oligocene Ashley and Chandler Bridge Formations of South Carolina, 3: Eomysticetidae, a new family of primitive mysticetes (Mammalia: Cetacea) / Albert E. Sanders and Lawrence G. Barnes

Plates for Joel Asaph Allen's unpublished monograph on the mammalian orders Cete and Sirenia and a record of the search for the manuscript / James G. Mead and Rosemary G. Dagit.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Print version record.

Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2018.

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OCLC:

1035595001

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