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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Marcelo R. Sanchez-Villagra , Orangel A. Aguilera , Alfredo A. CarliniPublisher: Indiana University Press Imprint: Indiana University Press Dimensions: Width: 17.80cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 25.40cm Weight: 0.839kg ISBN: 9780253354761ISBN 10: 0253354765 Pages: 304 Publication Date: 16 July 2010 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Out of Print Availability: In Print  Limited stock is available. It will be ordered for you and shipped pending supplier's limited stock. Table of ContentsPreface 1. Venezuelan Geography and Biodiversity: A Brief Introduction / Cathy Villalba and Marcelo R. Sanchez-Villagra 2. A Short History of the Study of Venezuelan Vertebrate Fossils / Marcelo R. Sanchez-Villagra 3. The Fossil Vertebrate Record of Venezuela of the Last 65 Million Years / Marcelo R. Sanchez-Villagra, Orangel A. Aguilera, Rodolfo Sanchez, and Alfredo A. Carlini 4. Paleoenvironmental Trends in Venezuela during the Last Glacial Cycle / Valenti Rull, Mark B. Abbott, Teresa Vegas-Vilarrubia, Maximiliano Bezada, Encarni Montoya, Sandra Nogue, and Catalina Gonzalez 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, Dione Rodrigues de Aguilera, Francisco J. Vega, and Marcelo R. Sanchez-Villagra 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 the Urumaco Trough, Falcon Basin, Western Venezuela / Luis I. Quiroz and Carlos A. Jaramillo 9. Fossil Turtles from the Northern Neotropics: The Urumaco Sequence Fauna and Finds from Other Localities in Venezuela and Colombia / Marcelo R. Sanchez-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, Marcelo R. Sanchez-Villagra, M. Guiomar Vucetich, and Orangel A. Aguilera 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 IndexReviews<p>Fossils, both vertebrate and invertebrate, of South America provide aunique view of life of the past in contrast to faunas from other parts of the world.Though areas in the southern part of the continent have yielded much information, scientists know less about the fauna of the northern parts, particularly Venezuela.However, the last few decades have seen many new discoveries and descriptions. Thisbook covers the biodiversity of Venezuela, its geology, paleoenvironmental trends, and some of its invertebrates and plants; six chapters focus on the principalvertebrate groups. Much of the book is devoted to the rich diversity of the MioceneUrumaco formation (hence the title), but chapter contributors do not ignore earlierand later fossil deposits. The chapters are highly detailed and extensivelyreferenced. There are numerous geological sections, full-color geologic andvegetation maps, and even histologic sections of the bones of several fossils. Thevolume includes many restorations of f Author InformationMarcelo R. Sanchez-Villagra is Assistant Professor of Paleontology at the University of Zurich. Orangel A. Aguilera is Professor Emeritus at the Universidad Francisco de Miranda in Coro. Alfredo A. Carlini is a researcher at the Argentinean Research Council (CONICET) and a faculty member of the Universidad de La Plata in Argentina. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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