The Paleogene mammalian fauna of Santa Rosa, Amazonian Peru /

"This volume describes most of the known mammalian fauna of the Santa Rosa local fauna of eastern Peru, the first Paleogene vertebrate fauna to be reported from the forested, tropical lowlands of the Amazon Basin. ...The articles are heavily weighted toward taxonomic descriptions of species new...

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Corporate Author: Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Los Angeles, Calif. : Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 2004.
Series:Science series ; no. 40
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Table of Contents:
  • The Paleogene Santa Rosa local fauna : introduction / Kenneth E. Campbell, Jr.
  • The Paleogene Santa Rosa local fauna of Amazonian Peru / Kenneth E. Campbell, Jr., Carl David Frailey, Lidia Romero-Pittmann
  • New Paleogene marsupials from the Amazon Basin of eastern Peru / Francisco J. Goin and Adriana M. Candela
  • Paleogene notoungulates from the Amazon Basin of Peru / Bruce J. Shockey, Ralph Hitz, Mariano Bond
  • Paleogene rodents from Amazonian Peru / Carl David Frailey and Kenneth E. Campbell, Jr.
  • Incisor enamel microstructure of South America's earliest rodents: implications for caviomorph origin and diversification / Thomas Martin
  • A possible bat (Mammalia : Chiroptera) from the ?Eocene of Amazonian Peru / Nicholas J. Czaplewski and Kenneth E. Campbell, Jr.
  • Enigmatic mammal from the Paleogene of Peru / Franciso J. Goin, [et al.]
  • The Santa Rosa local fauna: a summary / Kenneth E. Campbell, Jr.