Horns, tusks, and flippers: the evolution of hoofed mammals
"Using an approach based on cladistics, the authors consider both living and extinct ungulates. Included in their discussion are the stories of rhinos, whose ancestors include dinosaur-sized hornless species and hippo-like river waders; elephants, whose earliest ancestors had neither tusks nor...
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| Zusammenfassung: | "Using an approach based on cladistics, the authors consider both living and extinct ungulates. Included in their discussion are the stories of rhinos, whose ancestors include dinosaur-sized hornless species and hippo-like river waders; elephants, whose earliest ancestors had neither tusks nor trunks; and whales, whose descent from hoofed mesonychids has never properly been described for the lay audience. Prothero and Schoch also update the evolutionary history of the horse, correcting the frequent errors made in textbooks and popular works, and they make available to the general public new evidence about the evolution of camels, horned antelopes, and cattle. In addition, they raise important conservation issues and relate anecdotes of significant fossil finds." "Scientifically accurate, generously illustrated, and clearly written, Horns Tusks, and Flippers is a much-needed resource for specialists in the fields of paleontology, zoology, ecology, and evolutionary biology, as well as for general readers interested in learning more about the story of life on earth."--BOOK JACKET. |
| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-307) |
| Beschreibung: | IX, 311 S. Ill. : 29 cm |
| ISBN: | 0801871352 |
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| adam_text | HORNS, TUSKS, AND FLIPPERS:
THE EVOLUTION OF
HOOFED MAMMALS
Donald R P^othero
Occidental College
Los Angeles, California
and
Robert M Schoch
Boston University
Boston, Massachusetts
The Johns Hopkins University Press
Baltimore and London
Contents
Preface and Acknowledgments xi
1 Introduction 1
American savanna 1
Names and dates 2
Hoofed mammals 6
Uinta beasts and the Cope-Marsh wars 9
The lost world 13
2 Cloven hooves 19
The kingdom of cloven hooves 19
Gut reactions 19
Bunny deer 23
Phosphate and fossils 25
Pseudopigs 26
Sui generis 27
Nebraska man and javelinas 35
The river horse 39
3 Tylopods 45
Camels without humps 45
Ships of the desert 53
Mountain tooth 56
4 Where the deer and the antelope play 61
Graveyard of the Amazons 61
Horns and antlers 63
Mouse deer 65
The forest donkey 66
The camelopard 67
Deer perfume 72
Ail-American—but not an antelope 74
Deer to us all 76
Abbe David and his deer 84
5 Hollow horns 87
A world of bovids 87
Bovines 90
Aurochs and wisent 92
Where the buffalo roam 94
Cattle call 97
Diving bucks 99
Bright eyes 100
Mountain monarchs 107
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6 A whale s tale 115
Dr Koch s sea serpent 115
Walking whales? 117
Andrews giant bear 118
The pedigree of Leviathan 120
Life of a Leviathan 121
So long, and thanks for all the fish 124
Moby Dick, Flipper, and their kin 127
Filter-feeding monsters 133
Save the whales! 135
7 Out of Africa 141
The tethytheres 141
Mermaids 143
The feeble folk 149
8 The origin of Jumbo 157
Giants in the earth 157
Early tuskers 159
The Great Missourium 163
Shovel-tuskers and gomphotheres 166
Elephant grinders 169
Woolly wanderers 170
The mystery of the missing mammoths 176
9 Kingdom of ivory 179
Behold the behemoth ; 179
Behemoth biology 182
The sisterhood 185
God and slave 190
Blood and ivory 191
10 A horse of a different color (and shape) 197
The origin of perissodactyls 777 197
The hyrax beast 198
Cuvier s ancient beast 203
Halfway horses 204
Browsing anchitheres 205
Grazing horses 207
The hipparion controversy 209
11 Equus 213
One-toed horses 213
Stripes do not a zebra make 216
Wild asses 221
Wild and domesticated horses 223
12 Thunder beasts 229
The legend of the Thunder Beasts 229
Bone rush 230
Osbom, Asia, and orthogenesis 233
The biology of brontotheres 235
ix
13 Proboscises and claws 241
Dragons teeth 241
Hall of the mountain cow 242
Chalicotheres don t obey Cuvier s Law 247
Just what are chalicotheres? 250
Moropomorphs 252
14 Rhinoceroses without horns 255
Ancient Dacians and Siberian mummies 255
American rhinos 256
The amphibious amynodonts 257
Running rhinos and rhino giants 258
True rhinoceroses 262
Miocene invasions 264
Rhinoceros Pompeii 268
Hairy rhinos and giant unicorns 271
15 Thundering to extinction 277
Unicorn, monoceros, and rhinoceros 277
Black and white 280
One-horned rhinos 284
Horns of doom 287
Epilogue 293
References 297
Index 309
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