- ホーム
- > 洋書
- > 英文書
- > Science / Mathematics
Full Description
Urumaco and Venezuelan Paleontology offers a synthesis of the paleontological record of Venezuela, including new discoveries on stratigraphy, paleobotany, fossil invertebrates, and vertebrates. Besides providing a critical summary of the record of decapods, fishes, crocodiles, turtles, rodents, armadillos, and ungulates, several chapters introduce new information on the distribution and paleobiology of groups not previously studied in this part of the world. Given its position in the northern neotropics, close to the Panamanian land bridge, Venezuela is a key location for understanding faunal exchanges between the Americas in the recent geological past. The book reviews the recent paleobotanical and vertebrate fossil record of the region, provides an understanding of Pleistocene climatic change and biogeography for the last few thousand years, and integrates new information with summaries of Spanish language works on Venezuelan geology and paleontology.
Contents
Preface1. Venezuelan Geography and Biodiversity: A Brief Introduction / Cathy Villalba and Marcelo R. Sanchez-Villagra2. A Short History of the Study of Venezuelan Vertebrate Fossils / Marcelo R. Sanchez-Villagra3. The Fossil Vertebrate Record of Venezuela of the Last 65 Million Years / Marcelo R. Sanchez-Villagra, Orangel A. Aguilera, Rodolfo Sanchez, and Alfredo A. Carlini4. Paleoenvironmental Trends in Venezuela during the Last Glacial Cycle / Valenti Rull, Mark B. Abbott, Teresa Vegas-Vilarrubia, Maximiliano Bezada, Encarni Montoya, Sandra Nogue, and Catalina Gonzalez5. The Guayana Highlands as a Natural Laboratory for the Biogeographical and Evolutionary Study of the Neotropical Flora / Valenti Rull6. Mesozoic and Cenozoic Decapod Crustaceans from Venezuela and Related Trace-Fossil Assemblages / Orangel A. Aguilera, Dione Rodrigues de Aguilera, Francisco J. Vega, and Marcelo R. Sanchez-Villagra7. Venezuelan Caribbean and Orinocoan Neogene Fish / Orangel A. Aguilera and John Lundberg8. Stratigraphy and Sedimentary Environments of Miocene Shallow to Marginal Marine Deposits in the Urumaco Trough, Falcon Basin, Western Venezuela / Luis I. Quiroz and Carlos A. Jaramillo9. Fossil Turtles from the Northern Neotropics: The Urumaco Sequence Fauna and Finds from Other Localities in Venezuela and Colombia / Marcelo R. Sanchez-Villagra and Torsten M. Scheyer10. Fossil Crocodylians from Venezuela in the Context of South American Faunas / Torsten M. Scheyer and Jorge W. Moreno-Bernal11. Fossil Rodents from the Late Miocene Urumaco and Middle Miocene Cumaca Formations, Venezuela / Ines Horovitz, Marcelo R. Sanchez-Villagra, M. Guiomar Vucetich, and Orangel A. Aguilera12. An Introduction to Cingulate Evolution and Their Evolutionary History during the Great American Biotic Interchange: Biogeographical Clues from Venezuela / Alfredo A. Carlini and Alfredo E. Zurita13. The South American Native Ungulates of the Urumaco Formation / Mariano Bond and Javier N. GelfoIndex
