Nearly half of the known species of mammals alive today (more than
1600) are rodents or "gnawing mammals" (Nowak and Paradiso, 1983).
The diversity of rodents is greater than that of any other order of
mammals. Thus, it is not surprising that the fossil record of this
order is extensive and fossil material of rodents from the Tertiary
is known from all continents except Antarctica and Australia. The
purpose of this book is to compile the published knowledge on
fossil rodents from North America and present it in a way that is
accessible to paleontologists and mammalogists interested in
evolutionary studies of ro dents. The literature on fossil rodents
is widely scattered between journals on paleontology and mammalogy
and in-house publications of museums and universities. Currently,
there is no single source that offers ready access to the
literature on a specific family of rodents and its fossil history.
This work is presented as a reference text that can be useful to
specialists in rodents (fossil or recent) as weIl as mammalian
paleontologists working on whole faunas. Because the diversity of
rodents in the world is essentially limitless, any monograph that
included all fossil rodents would similarly be limitless. Hence,
this book is limited to the re cord of Tertiary rodents of North
America. The several species of South American (caviomorph) rodents
that invaded North America near the end of the Tertiary are also
not included in this text."
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