Mammalian evolutionary morphology
Subtitle: a tribute to Frederick S. Szalay
By: edited by Eric J. Sargis and Marian Dagosto.
Contributors: Sargis, Eric J.; Dagosto, Marian.
Series: Vertebrate paleobiology and paleoanthropology series; Vertebrate paleobiology and paleoanthropology
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Dordrecht, The Netherlands
Language: eng
Number of pages: 439
ISBN-13: 9781402069963
Subjects: Szalay, Frederick S; Mammals -- Evolution; Mammals -- Morphology; Primates -- Evolution; Primates -- Morphology
Notes: "A tribute to Frederick S. Szalay."

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Earliest evidence of Deltatheroida (Mammalia: Metatheria) from the early Cretaceous of North America / Brian M. Davis, Richard L. Cifelli and Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska; title: Evolution of hind limb proportions in kangaroos (Marsupialia: Macropodoidea) / Benjamin P. Kear ... [et al.]; title: Changing views in paleontology : the story of a giant (Megatherium, Xenarthra) / Christine Argot; title: Evolutionary morphology of the Tenrecoidea (Mammalia) forelimb skeleton / Justine A. Salton and Eric J. Sargis; title: Postcranial morphology of Apheliscus and Haplomylus (Condylarthra, Apheliscidae) : evidence for a Paleocene Holarctic origin of Macroscelidea / Tonya A. Penkrot ... [et al.]; title: Postcranial skeleton of the Upper Paleocene (Itaboraian) "Condylarthra" (Mammalia) of the Itaboraí Basin, Brazil / Lilian P. Berqvist; title: Postcranial osteology of mammals from Salla, Bolivia (late Oligocene) : form, function, and phylogenetic implications / Bruce J. Shockey and Frederico Anaya; title: Evolution of the proximal third phalanx in Oligocene-Miocene equids, and the utility of phalangeal indices in phylogeny reconstruction / Jay A. O'Sullivan; title: Adaptive zones and the pinniped ankle : a three-dimensional quantitative analysis of carnivoran tarsal evolution / P. David Polly; title: The biogeographic origins of Primates and Euprimates : east, west, north, or south of Eden? / Mary T. Silcox; title: Evaluating the mitten-gliding hypothesis for Paromomyidae and Micromomyidae (Mammalia, "Plesiadapiformes") using comparative functional morphology of new Paleogene skeletons / Douglas M. Boyer and Jonathan I. Bloch; title: Morphological diversity in the skulls of large adapines (Primates, Adapiformes) and its systematic implications / Marc Godinot and Sébastien Couette; title: Primate tibiae from the middle Eocene Shanghuang fissure-fillings of eastern China / Marian Dagosto ... [et al.]; title: Rooneyia, postorbital closure, and the beginnings of the age of Anthropoidea / Alfred L. Rosenberger, Russell Hogg and Sai Man Wong; title: Epitensoric position of the chorda tympani in Anthropoidea : a new synapomorphic character, with remarks on the fissura Glaseri in Primates / Wolfgang Maier; title: Evolutionary morphology of the guenon postcranium and its taxonomic implications / Eric J. Sargis, Carl J. Terranova and Daniel L. Gebo; title: Analysis of selected hominoid joint surfaces using laser scanning and geometric morphometrics : a preliminary report / William E.H. Harcourt-Smith ... [et al.]; title: Comparative primate bone microstructure: records of life history, function, and phylogeny / Johanna Warshaw.