A giant caiman (Purussaurus neivensis) and small litopterns (Megadolodus molariformis) Illustration Velizar Simeonovski (C) 2016 by Darin A. Croft |
Indiana University Press ISBN 978-0-253-02084-0 |
The book is dedicated "to anyone who has ever wondered what a notoungulate looked like," which makes me the target audience. I read extensively about the fossil fauna when writing about the placentation of the extant species (here). The extinct families that lived side by side with marsupials and earlier xenarthrans were so unfamiliar as to seem wraith-like.
The xenungulate Carodnia vieirai from ItaboraĆ Illustration Velizar Simeonovski (C) 2016 by Darin A. Croft |
After some introductory chapters the subject matter is arranged according to 15 fossiliferous localities. Conspicuously absent is Lagoa Santa in Brazil where the Danish palaeontologist P. W. Lund worked in the Nineteenth Century (here). His extensive Collection is housed at the Natural History Museum of Copenhagen University.
i am from china with loving that.The extincted mammals in South America are so mysterious.would you like to show more details?
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