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A history of land mammals in the western hemisphere
William Berryman Scott
The Americas were once ruled by giant sloths, strange hoofed beasts, and mammals found nowhere else. William Scott reconstructs them from bone and tooth, explaining how paleontologists read a skeleton and classify the vanished. A sweeping account of New World mammals across deep time. Walk the ancient continents when the strangest animals were king.
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98 chapters
- 1A HISTORY OF LAND MAMMALS IN THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE
- 2PREFACE
- 3CONTENTS
- 4A HISTORY OF LAND MAMMALS IN THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE
- 5CHAPTER I METHODS OF INVESTIGATION—GEOLOGICAL
- 6CHAPTER II METHODS OF INVESTIGATION—PALÆONTOLOGICAL
- 7CHAPTER III THE CLASSIFICATION OF THE MAMMALIA
- 8CHAPTER IV THE SKELETON AND TEETH OF MAMMALS
- 9I. The Skeleton
- 10II. The Teeth
- 11CHAPTER V THE GEOGRAPHICAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE AMERICAS IN CENOZOIC TIMES
- 12I. Tertiary Period
- 131. Paleocene Epoch
- 142. Eocene Epoch
- 153. Oligocene Epoch
- 164. Miocene Epoch
- 175. Pliocene Epoch
- 18II. Quaternary Period
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