Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, Vol. 4, No. 2, Origin and Evolution of the Cenozoic Vertebrate Fauna of Middle America (Oct., 1984), pp. 208-215 (8 pages) Ten geographically restricted vertebrate ...

Ignacio Morales-Castilla, Miguel Á. Olalla-Tárraga, Andy Purvis, Bradford A. Hawkins and Miguel Á. Rodríguez Abstract Ecology, evolution, and historical events all contribute to biogeographic patterns ...

Mammal species diversified more rapidly early in their history – peaking roughly 66 million years ago – before a long-term decline in diversification punctuated by diminishing bursts of evolutionary ...

The landscape of Central Africa 65 million years ago was a low-elevation tropical belt, but the jury is still out on whether the region's mammals browsed and hunted beneath the canopy of a lush ...

Physical And Temporal Setting: 1. Tectonics and Geomorphology of Africa during the Phanerozoic / Timothy C. Partridge -- 2. Chronology of Paleogene Mammal Localities / Erik R. Seiffert -- 3.

Central Africa 65 million years ago was a low-elevation tropical belt, but still undetermined is whether the region's mammals lived beneath a lush rainforest canopy. Evidence is weak and unconvincing, ...

A $100,000 grant from the David B. Jones Foundation will help to develop a new generation of paleontologists at the University of Kansas, enabling students to pursue fieldwork in locations such as ...