The great American biotic interchange : a South American perspective /: a South American perspective. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Alberto Luis Cione, Germán Mariano Gasparini, Esteban Soibelzon, Leopoldo Héctor Soibelzon, Eduardo Pedro Tonni.
• Authors: Cione, Alberto Luis; Gasparini, Germán Mariano; Soibelzon, Esteban; Soibelzon, Leopoldo Héctor; Tonni, Eduardo P
• Contents: The history of the Great American Biotic Interchange concept.- Continents involved in the GABI.- Landbridges between previously isolated continents.- Chronology, Stratigraphy and Paleoclimatology of South America since Late Miocene to the Recent.- Objectives and hypothesis.- Methods.- Stratigraphic conceptual framework.- Taxonomic diversity: native, immigrant, and in situ differentiated taxa.- Paleoecology: body mass and diet estimations.- Analysis of Immigrant Mammal Fauna through the Diffferent Ages.- Huayquerian Age.- Montehermosan Age.- Chapadmalalan Age.- Marplatan Age.- Ensenadan Age.- Bonaerian Ag.- Lujanian Age.- Platan Age.- Discussion.- The GABI chronology and dynamics.- Integration of South American mammalian faunas: native and immigrant taxa coexisting.- Quaternary mammalian extinctions in South American Composition of recent mammalian fauna of South America.
• Publisher Details: Dordrecht : Springer
• Publication Date: 2015
• Copyright Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource (97 pages)
• Subjects: 560.178091812; Paleobiogeography -- America; Plate tectonics
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9789401797924
• Related ISBNs: 9789401797917
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