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基本説明
Explores evolutionary topics and trends among all living artiodactyl families as well as many that are extinct.
Full Description
Artiodactyls are diverse and successful hoofed mammals, represented by nearly two hundred living species of pigs, peccaries, hippos, camels, deer, sheep, cattle, giraffes, and other even-toed ungulates. In the recent years, a tremendous amount of research has been conducted on this important order. The Evolution of Artiodactyls synthesizes this research into a single, comprehensive volume. Here Donald R. Prothero, Scott E. Foss, and a team of distinguished international experts explore a variety of topics, including molecular phylogeny of terrestrial artiodactyls phylogenetic relationships of cetaceans to terrestrial artiodactyls, and the earliest artiodactyls-Diacodexidae, Dichobunidae, Homacodontidae, Leptochoeridae, and Raoellidae. A landmark reference, The Evolution of Artiodactyls belongs in the library of every paleontologist, mammalogist, and evolutionary biologist. Contributors: Jean-Renaud Boisserie, Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle; Edward Byrd Davis, University of Oregon; Stephane Ducrocq, Universite de Poitiers; Jorg Erfurt, Martin-Luther-Universitat Halle-Wittenberg; Jonathan H. Geisler, Georgia Southern University; Colin P.
Groves, Australian National University; John M. Harris, George C. Page Museum; James G. Honey, University of Colorado, Boulder; Christine M. Janis, Brown University; Fabrice Lihoreau, Universite de N'Djamena; Matthew R. Liter, Occidental College; Liu Li-Ping, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, China; Joshua A. Ludtke, San Diego State University; Jonathan D. Marcot, University of Colorado Museum; Gregoire Metais, Carnegie Museum of Natural History; Gertrud E. Rossner, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen; Nikos Solounias, American Museum of Natural History; James Bowie Stevens and Margaret Skeels Stevens, Lamar University; Jessica M. Theodor, University of Calgary; Mark D. Uhen, Cranbrook Institute of Science; Inessa Vislobokova, Russian Academy of Sciences
Contents
Acknoledgments
List of Contributors
1. Introduction
2. Molecular Phylogeny of Terrestrial Artiodactyls: Conflicts and Resolution
3. Phylogenetic Relationships of Cetacceans to Terrestrial Artiodactyls
4. The Earliest Artiodactyls: Diacodexeidae, Dichobunidae, Homacodontidae, Leptochoeridae, and Raoellidae
5. Endemic European Paleogene Artiodactyls: Cebochoeridae, Choeropotamidae, Mixtotheriidae, Cainotheriidae, Anoplptheriidae, Xiphontidae, and Amphimerycidae
6. Family Helohyidae
7. Family Anthracotheriidae
8. Family Hippopotamidae
9. Family Entelodontidae
10. Superfamily Suoidae
11. Family Agriochoeridae
12. Family Agriochoeridae
12. Family Merycoidodontidae
13. Family Protoceratidae
14. Family Camelidae
15. Basal Ruminants
16. Family Tragulidae
17. Family Moschidae
18. Family Antilocapridae
19. Family Paleopmerycidae
20. Family Cervidae
21. Family Giraffidae
22. Family Bovidae
23. Artiodactyl Paleoecology and Evolutionary Trends
24. Summary
References
Index
