| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: monographic
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| Title Information: |
the fossil record of the northern neotropics |
| Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: |
CarliniAlfredo A, |
| Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: |
Aguilera SocorroOrangel Antonio, 1954- |
| Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: |
Sánchez-VillagraMarcelo R, |
| Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: |
Project Muse |
| Place of Publication: |
Bloomington |
| Published: |
Indiana University Press; |
| Year of Publication: |
c2010 |
| Description: |
1 online resource (x, 286 p., [12] p. of plates)ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) . : |
| Series: |
Life of the past |
| Subject: |
Geology - Venezuela - |
| Subject: |
Fossils - Venezuela - |
| Online resource: |
http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780253002006/ |
| Notes: |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: |
9780253002006electronic bk. |
| ISBN: |
0253002001electronic bk. |
| ISBN: |
9780253354761hbk. |
| ISBN: |
0253354765hbk. |
| Content Note: |
Venezuelan Geography and Biodiversity: A Brief Introduction / Cathy Villalba and Marcelo R Sanchez-Villagra -- 2. A Short History of Studyof Venezuelan Vertebrate Fossils / Marcelo R Sanchez-Villagra -- 3. The Fossil Vertebrate Record of Venezuela of the Last 65 Million Years /Marcelo R Sanchez-Villagra ... [et al.] -- 4. Paleoenvironmental Trends in Venezuela during the Last Glacial Cycle / Valenti Rull ... [et al.] -- 5. The Guayana Highlands as a Natural Laboratory for the Biogeographical and Evolutionary Study of the Neotropical Flora / Valenti Rull -- 6. Mesozoic and Cenozoic Decapod Crustaceans from Venezuela and Related Trace-Fossil Assemblages / Orangel A. Aguilera ... [et al.] -- 7. Venezuelan Caribbean and Orinocoan Neogene Fish / Orangel A. Aguilera and John Lundberg -- 8. Stratigraphy and Sedimentary Environments of Miocene Shallow to Marginal Marine Deposits in theUrumaco Trough, Falcon Basin, Western Venezuela / Luis I. Quiroz and Carlos A. Jaramillo -- 9. Fossil Turtles from the Northern Neotropics: The Urumaco Sequence Faunaand Finds from other Localities in Venezuela and Colombia / Marcelo RSanchez-Villagra and Torsten M Scheyer -- 10. Fossil Crocodylians from Venezuela, in the Context of South American Faunas / Torsten M. Scheyer and Jorge W. Moreno-Bernal -- 11. Fossil Rodents from the Late Miocene Urumaco and Middle Miocene Cumaca Formations, Venezuela / Ines Horovitz ... [et al.] -- 12. An Introduction to Cingulate Evolution and their Evolutionary History during the Great American Biotic Interchange: Biogeographical Clues from Venezuela / Alfredo A. Carlini and Alfredo E. Zurita -- 13. The South American Native Ungulates of the Urumaco Formation / Mariano Bond and Javier N. Gelfo |