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A Brief History of South American Metatherians - Evolutionary Contexts and Intercontinental Dispersals (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016)
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A Brief History of South American Metatherians - Evolutionary Contexts and Intercontinental Dispersals (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016)
Series: Springer Earth System Sciences
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This book summarizes major aspects of the evolution of South
American metatherians, including their epistemologic, phylogenetic,
biogeographic, faunal, tectonic, paleoclimatic, and metabolic
contexts. A brief overview of the evolution of each major South
American lineage ("Ameridelphia", Sparassodonta, Didelphimorphia,
Paucituberculata, Microbiotheria, and Polydolopimorphia) is
provided. It is argued that due to physiological constraints,
metatherian evolution closely followed the conditions imposed by
global temperatures. In general terms, during the Paleocene and the
early Eocene multiple radiations of metatherian lineages occurred,
with many adaptive types exploiting insectivorous, frugivorous, and
omnivorous adaptive zones. In turn, a mixture of generalized and
specialized types, the latter mainly exploiting carnivorous and
granivorous-folivorous adaptive zones, characterized the second
half of the Cenozoic. In both periods, climate was the critical
driver of their radiation and turnovers.
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