The evolution of perissodactyls
This treatise contains 24 papers covering recent developments regarding fossil horses, rhinos, tapirs, and their extinct relatives. It includes information on the oldest known rhino and perissodactyl, and papers debunking myths about the evolution of the horse.
Print Book, English, 1989
Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, New York, Oxford, 1989
IX, 537 p. : il. ; 26 cm.
9780195060393, 0195060393
642235277
Contributors; James A. Hopson: Leonard Burton Radinsky (1937-1985); Robert M. Schoch: A brief historical review of perissodactyl classification; Malcolm C. McKenna, Chow Minchem, Ting Suyin, and Luo Zhexi: Radinskya yupingae, a perissodactyl-like mammal from the late Paleocene of southern China; Martin S. Fischer: Hyracoids, the sister-group of perissodactyls; D. Tab Rasmussen; The evolution of the Hyracoidea: a review of the fossil evidence; J.J. Hooker: Character polarities in early perissodactyls and their significance for Hyracotherium and infraordinal relationships; Jens Lorenz Franzen: Origin and systematic position of the Palaeotheriidae; Robert L. Evander: Phylogeny of the Family Equidae; Bruce J. MacFadden: Dental character variation in the paleopopulatins and morphospecies of fossil horses and extant analogues; Donald R. Prothero and Neil Shubin: The evolution of Oligocene horses; Richard C. Hubert, Jr.: Phylogenetic interrelationships and evolution of North American late Neogene Equidae; Michael O. Woodburne: Hipparion horses: a pattern of endemic evolution and intercontinenal dispersal; Maria-Teresa Alberdi: A review of Old World hipparionine horses; Melissa C. Winans: A quantitative study of the North American fossil species of the genus Equus; Robert M. Schoch: A review of the tapiroids; Donald R. Prothero, Claude Guérin, and Earl Manning: The history of the Rhincerotoidea; William P. Wall: The phylogenetic history and adaptive radiation of the Amynodontidae; Kurt Heissig: The allaceropine hyracodonts; Spencer G. Lucas and Jay Sobus: The systematics of indricotheres; C. Bruce Hanson: Teletaceras radinskyi, a new primitive rhinocerotid from the late Eocene Clarno Formation, Oregon; Kurt Heissig: The Rhinocerotidae; Leonard Ginsburg and kurt Heissig: Hoploaceratherium, n. gen., a new generic name for "Aceratherium" tetradactylum; Spencer G. Lucas and Robert M. Schoch: Taxonomy and biochronology of Eomorphus and Grangia, Eocene chalicotheres from the western United States and China; Margery C. Coombs: Interrelationships and diversity in the Chalicotheriidae; Bryn J. Mader; The Brontotheriidae: a systematic revision and preliminary phylogeny of North American genera; Spencer G. Lucas and Robert M. Schoch: European brontotheres; Spencer G. Lucas and Robert M. Schoch: Taxonomy of Duchesneodus (Brontotheriidae) from the late Eocene of North America; Donald R. Prothero and Robert M. Schoch: Origin and evolution of the Perissodactyla; summary and synthesis; Donald R. Prothero and Robert M. Schoch: Classification of the Perissodactyla.