The Terrestrial Eocene-Oligocene Transition in North America (Hardcover, New)

The transition from the Eocene to the Oligocene epoch, occurring approximately 47 to 30 million years ago, was the most dramatic episode of climatic and biotic change since the demise of the dinosaurs. The mild tropical climates of the Paleocene and early Eocene were replaced by modern climatic conditions and extremes, including glacial ice in Antarctica. The first part of this book summarizes the latest information in the dating and correlation of the strata of late middle Eocene through early Oligocene age in North America. The second part reviews almost all the important terrestrial reptiles and mammals found near the Eocene-Oligocene boundary, in the White River Chronofauna--from the turtles, snakes and lizards to the common rodents, carnivores, oreodonts and deer of the Badlands. This is the first comprehensive treatment of these topics in over sixty years, and will be invaluable to vertebrate paleontologists, geologists, mammalogists and evolutionary biologists.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	June 1996
First published:	1996
Editors:	Donald R. Prothero • Robert J. Emry
Dimensions:	254 x 178 x 38mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	706
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-43387-7
Categories:	Books > Earth & environment > Earth sciences > Palaeontology > General
LSN:	0-521-43387-8
Barcode:	9780521433877

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