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History of Cenozoic Mammals from South America: A New Model (Springer Earth System Sciences) by Federico Agnolin is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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The Cenozoic history of South America faunas mainly rests on the evidence yielded by the study of fossil mammals. Following the seminal work of William D. Matthew, George G. Simpson established the slogan “Splendid Isolation” for describing the evolutionary history of South American faunas. He envisaged South America (as well as other Southern Hemisphere landmasses) as dead ends in the evolution and geographical expansion of animals and plants that since the Mesozoic come in successive migratory waves from the North. More than 40 years passed away from the last important contribution by Simpson (1980). Since then, in spite to the exponential increase in biological, paleontological and geological knowledge, and an incredibly new number of fossils, his scheme remained almost unpolluted and most recent books regarding the palaeobiogeography of South American vertebrates follow this paradigm nearly without criticism. However, the fact that South America was joined to Africa, Australia, Antarctica and India during most of the Cretaceous, and that it was still connected Australia (via Antarctica) and probably Africa up to the Paleogene, together with the large number of shared biotic com
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- Author
- Federico Agnolin
- Publisher
- Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- Published
- 2024
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9783031562662
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Science, History, Latin American History
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