Palaeoecology and Palaeoenvironments of Late Cenozoic Mammals : : Tributes to the Career of C.S. (Rufus) Churcher / / Kathlyn Stewart, Kevin Seymour.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• VerfasserIn: Stewart, Kathlyn,; Seymour, Kevin,
• MitwirkendeR: Agenbroad, Larry D.,; Akersten, William A.,; Anderson, Elaine,; Auffenberg, K.,; Barnosky, Anthony D.,; Brink, J.S.,; Bryant, Harold N.,; Burns, James A.,; Carroll, Robert L.,; Churcher, C.S.,; Colbert, Edwin H.,; Cooke, H.B.S.,; Cruz-Uribe, Kathryn,; Daeschler, Edward B.,; Edmund, A . Gordon,; Farlow, James O.,; Forsten, Ann,; Gentry, A.W.,; Grady, Frederick,; Graham, Russell W.,; Hadly, Elizabeth A.,; Harington, C.R.,; Hunt, Robert M.,; Jacobs, Louis L.,; Karrow, P.F.,; Keesing, Felicia L.,; Klein, Richard G.,; Laub, Richard S.,; Manganaro, Carol,; Martin, Robert A.,; McClain, Jana,; McDonald, H. Gregory,; McDonald, Jerry N.,; Mead, Jim I.,; Morgan, G.S.,; Morlan, Richard E.,; Pinsof, John D.,; Plug, I.,; Portell, R. W.,; Ray, Clayton E.,; Repenning, Charles A.,; Richards, Ronald L.,; Rouse, Tina I.,; Schmidt, Victor A.,; Seymour, Kevin L.,; Simons, E.,; Stalker, A. Macs.,; Thackeray, J.F.,; Turnbull, William D.,; Turner, Alan,; Vandike, James E.,; Werdelin, Lars,; Winkler, Alisa J.,; Wood, David L.,; Xu, Xiaofeng,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]; ©1996
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Heritage
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (712 p.)

This unique volume of thirty essays, by fifty-three internationally known scholars, honours C.S. (Rufus) Churcher, the distinguished Canadian palaeontologist. The papers focus on late Cenozoic mammals in North America and Africa and provide both site-specific descriptions of faunas and their associated geological contexts, and more general syntheses of regional palaeoenvironments and biogeography. The volume provides a much-needed overview of current research.The stature of the researchers who have contributed to the volume, and the breadth of the material presented, is a reflection of Churcher’s diverse research interests. The first section contains eleven papers on the palaeoenvironment and palaeoecology of Quaternary mammals in North America; the second section has 9 contributions describing faunas and morphological analyses of North American Quaternary mammals; and the final section contains nine papers on the palaeoecology and palaeoenvironments of late Cenozoic mammals of Africa. In this final section, Alan Gentry pays tribute to Churcher by naming a species after him: Budorcas churcheri. The volume contains individual discussions of North American fossil prairie dogs, mastodons, zebras, short-faced bears, sabre cats, lions, giant armadillos, elk-moose, caribou and muskrats, as well as African hyaenas, zebras, hipparion horses, antelopes, rodents, and giraffes.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- C.S. 'Rufus' Churcher - The man from Aldershot -- North American Quaternary Mammals: Palaeoecology and Palaeoenvironments -- Diversity bottlenecks, oddball survivors, and negative keys -- Comparison of mammalian response to glacialinterglacial transitions in the middle and late Pleistocene -- Review of Pleistocene zoogeography of prairie dogs (genus Cynomys) in western Canada with notes on their burrow architecture -- Pleistocene and Holocene vertebrates as models for the study of evolutionary patterns -- Selective mortality of mastodons (Mammut americanum) from the Port Kennedy Cave (Pleistocene; lrvingtonian), Montgomery County, Pennsylvania -- Middle Pleistocene (early Rancholabrean) vertebrates and associated marine and non-marine invertebrates from Oldsmar, Pinellas County, Florida -- Population structure of the late Pliocene (Blancan) zebra Equus simplicidens (Perissodactyla: Equidae) from the Hagerman Horse Quarry, Idaho -- Current status of North American Sangamonian local faunas and vertebrate taxa -- Distribution and size variation in North American Short-faced bears, Arctodus simus -- Origin of the vertebrate fossil sites near Medicine Hat, Alberta -- North American Quaternary Mammals: Faunas and Morphological Analyses -- A preliminary report on the Carnivore of Porcupine Cave, Park County, Colorado -- Force generation by the jaw adductor musculature at different gapes in the Pleistocene sabretoothed felid Smilodon -- A review of Pleistocene giant armadillos (Mammalia, Xenarthra, Pampatheriidae) -- A spectacular specimen of the elk-moose Cervalces scotti from Noble County, Indiana, U.S.A. -- Tracking Ice Age felids: Identification of tracks of Panthera atroxfrom a cave in southern Missouri, U.S.A. -- Pleistocene mammals of Dublin Gulch and the Mayo District, Yukon Territory -- The masticatory apparatus of the American mastodon (Mammut americanum) -- Pleistocene caribou (Rangifer tarandus) in the eastern United States: New records and range extensions -- Dental evolution and size change in the North American muskrat: Classification and tempo of a presumed phyletic sequence -- Early Rancholabrean mammals from Salamander Cave, Black Hills, South Dakota -- Late and middle Pleistocene vertebrate fossils from Old Crow Basin, Locality CRH 15, northern Yukon Territory -- Late Cenozoic Mammals of Africa Palaeoecology and Palaeoenvironments -- Antlers in America: Ossicones in Africa -- Sexual dimorphism in Antidorcas recki from Bolt's Farm, South Africa, in the University of California collections -- A review of Dietrich's hipparions from South Serengeti (Tanzania) and a comparison with similar materials -- A fossil Budorcas (Mammalia, Bovidae) from Africa -- Basicranial anatomy of the giant viverrid from 'E' Quarry, Langebaanweg, South Africa -- The identification of Equus skulls to species, with particular reference to the craniometric and systematic affinities of the extinct South African quagga -- Temporal variability in horn-core dimensions of Damaliscus nirofrom Olduvai, Sterkfontein, Cornelia, and Florisbad -- The fossil and living Hyaenidae of Africa: Present status -- Is the rodent Acomys a murine? An evaluation using morphometric techniques