Megafauna : giant beasts of Pleistocene South America /
More than 10,000 years ago, spectacularly large mammals roamed the pampas and jungles of South America. This book tells the story of these great beasts during and just after the Pleistocene, the geological epoch marked by the great ice ages. The authors describe the history and way of life of these...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Bloomington :
Indiana University Press,
2012
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| Series: | Life of the past.
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Paleontology and science : what is science?
- Distinguished paleomammalogists
- Geological and ecological history of South America during the Cenozoic era
- North American late Cenozoic faunas
- The Great American Biotic Interchange and Pleistocene habitats in South America
- Bestiary
- Physics of the giants
- General paleoecology
- Extinction.
