The Princeton Field Guide to Prehistoric Mammals
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The Princeton Field Guide to Prehistoric Mammals

  1. 240 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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The Princeton Field Guide to Prehistoric Mammals

About this book

The ultimate illustrated guide to the lost world of prehistoric mammals

After the mass extinction of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, mammals became the dominant terrestrial life form on our planet. Roaming the earth were spectacular beasts such as saber-toothed cats, giant mastodonts, immense ground sloths, and gigantic giraffe-like rhinoceroses. Here is the ultimate illustrated field guide to the lost world of these weird and wonderful prehistoric creatures.

A woolly mammoth probably won't come thundering through your vegetable garden any time soon. But if one did, this would be the book to keep on your windowsill next to the binoculars. It covers all the main groups of fossil mammals, discussing taxonomy and evolutionary history, and providing concise accounts of the better-known genera and species as well as an up-to-date family tree for each group. No other book presents such a wealth of new information about these animals—what they looked like, how they behaved, and how they were interrelated. In addition, this unique guide is stunningly illustrated throughout with full-color reconstructions of these beasts—many never before depicted—along with photographs of amazing fossils from around the world.

  • Provides an up-to-date guidebook to hundreds of extinct species, from saber-toothed cats to giant mammoths
  • Features a wealth of color illustrations, including new reconstructions of many animals never before depicted
  • Demonstrates evolution in action—such as how whales evolved from hoofed mammals and how giraffes evolved from creatures with short necks
  • Explains how mass extinctions and climate change affected mammals, including why some mammals grew so huge

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. CONTENTS
  5. DEDICATION
  6. Preface
  7. 1. The Age of Mammals
  8. 2. The Origin and Early Evolution of Mammals
  9. 3. Marsupials: Pouched Mammals
  10. 4. Placental Mammals (Eutheria)
  11. 5. Xenarthra: Sloths, Anteaters, and Armadillos
  12. 6. Afrotheria: Elephants, Hyraxes, Sea Cows, Aardvarks, and Their Relatives
  13. 7. Euarchontoglires: Euarchonta. Primates, Tree Shrews, and Colugos
  14. 8. Euarchontoglires: Glires. Rodents and Lagomorphs
  15. 9. Laurasiatheria: Insectivores. Order Eulipotyphla and Other Insectivorous Mammals
  16. 10. Laurasiatheria: Chiroptera. Bats
  17. 11. Laurasiatheria: Pholidota. Pangolins, or “Scaly Anteaters”
  18. 12. Laurasiatheria: Carnivora and Creodonta. Predatory Mammals
  19. 13. Laurasiatheria: Ungulata. Hoofed Mammals and Their Relatives
  20. 14. Laurasiatheria: Artiodactyla. “Even-Toed” Hoofed Mammals: Pigs, Hippos, Whales, Camels, Ruminants, and Their Extinct Relatives
  21. 15. Laurasiatheria: Perissodactyla. “Odd-Toed” Hoofed Mammals: Horses, Rhinos, Tapirs, and Their Extinct Relatives
  22. 16. Laurasiatheria: Meridiungulata. South American Hoofed Mammals
  23. 17. Uintatheres, Pantodonts, Taeniodonts, and Tillodonts
  24. 18. Mammalian Evolution and Extinction
  25. Illustration Credits
  26. Further Reading
  27. Index (with Pronunciation Guide for Taxonomic Names)