Initially, this work was designed to document and study the
diversification of modern mammalian groups and was quite successful
and satisfying. However, as field and laboratory work continued,
there began to develop a suspicion that not all of the Eocene story
was being told. It became apparent that most fossil samples,
especially those from the American West, were derived from similar
preservational circumstances and similar depositional settings. A
program was initiated to look for other potential sources of fossil
samples, either from non-traditional lithologies or from geographic
areas that were not typically sampled. As this program of research
grew it began to demonstrate that different lithologies and
different geographic areas told different stories from those that
had been developed based on more typical faunal assemblages. This
book is conceived as an introduction to non-traditional Eocene
fossils samples, and as a place to document and discuss features of
these fossil assemblages that are rare or that come from rarely
represented habitats.
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