Vertebrate fossils and their context
Subtitle: contributions in honor of Richard H. Tedford
By: Lawrence J. Flynn, editor ; [foreword by Michael J. Novacek].
Contributors: Flynn, Lawrence J. 1932-; Tedford, Richard H.; Novacek, Michael J.
Series: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History -- no. 279.
Publisher: American Museum of Natural History
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 659
Subjects: Tedford, Richard H.; Vertebrates, Fossil.; Paleontology -- Cenozoic.; Mammals, Fossil.; Paleobiogeography.; Geology, Stratigraphic -- Cenozoic.; Mammals -- Evolution.
Notes: "Issued November 26, 2003."

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: value: Richard H. Tedford : field man, systematist, professor, and mentor / Michael O. Woodburne ... [et al.]; value: Dispersals of Neogene carnivorans between Asia and North America / Qiu Zhanxiang; value: Pinnipedimorph evolutionary biogeography / Thomas A. Deméré, Annalisa Berta and Peter J. Adam; value: Intercontinental migration of large mammalian carnivores : earliest occurrence of the Old World beardog Amphicyon (Carnivora, Amphicyonidae) in North America / Robert M. Hunt, Jr.; value: Notes on early Oligocene ursids (Carnivora, Mammalia) from Saint Jacques, Nei Mongol, China / Wang Banyue and Qiu Zhanxiang; value: New procyonines from the Hemingfordian and Barstovian of the Gulf Coast and Nevada, including the first fossil record of the Potosini / Jon A. Baskin; value: Pack hunting in Miocene borophagine dogs : evidence from craniodental morphology and body size / Blaire Van Valkenburgh, Tyson Sacco, and Xiaoming Wang; value: New material of Osbornodon from the early Hemingfordian of Nebraska and Florida / Xiaoming Wang; value: Carnivora (Mammalia, Felidae, Canidae, and Mustelidae) from the earliest Hemphillian screw bean local fauna, Big Bend National Park, Brewster County, Texas / Margaret Skeels Stevens and James Bowie Stevens; value: Chronostratigraphy, biochronology, datum events, land mammal ages, stage of evolution, and appearance event ordination / Everett Lindsay; value: New late Uintan to early Hemingfordian land mammal assemblages from the undifferentiated Sespe and Vaqueros formations, Orange County, and from the Sespe and equivalent marine formations in Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, and Ventura counties, southern California / David P. Whistler and E. Bruce Lander