Overview
- Demonstrates that the nature and evolutionary history of South American vertebrates is complex
- Examines Palaeobiogeographic model of vertebrate settlement of South America
- Southern landmasses may have played an important role in the early evolution and radiation of extant mammal clades
Part of the book series: Springer Earth System Sciences (SPRINGEREARTH)
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About this book
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 factthat 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 components between these landmasses, point in favor of a different paleobiogeographical scenario.
The book aims to demonstrate that during the Paleogene (and most of the Neogene) the nature and evolutionary history of South American vertebrates is by far much more intricate than previously envisaged. As will be shown, new evidence suggests that southern landmasses may have played an important role in the early evolution and radiation of extant mammal clades.
This book is not written to conform with the ideal of a technical manual or a review, and is not carried forward to collect all that has been said before. The main goals are to criticize the current Palaeobiogeographic Model of Vertebrate Settlement of South America, and to propose a new vision based on the evidence provided by the natural world in the last decades.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Federico Agnolin is a researcher at CONICET in Argentina and a Doctorate on Natural Sciences. Federico Agnolin is currently working on diverse topics about fossil vertebrates, particularly dinosaurs and Paleogene faunas from South America. Particularly, he was always interested on the palaeobiogeographical relationships of latest Cretaceous-Paleogene faunas from South America with those of other continents. In this regard I have published several works on high impact journals (as Nature, Scientific Reports, Naturwissenchaften, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, Systematic Biology, Journal of Mammalian Evolution, Cretaceous Research, etc) that deal with the geographic distribution of South American vertebrates.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: History of Cenozoic Mammals from South America
Book Subtitle: A New Model
Authors: Federico Agnolin
Series Title: Springer Earth System Sciences
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-56266-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-56265-5Published: 24 April 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-56268-6Due: 25 May 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-56266-2Published: 23 April 2024
Series ISSN: 2197-9596
Series E-ISSN: 2197-960X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 318
Number of Illustrations: 32 b/w illustrations, 58 illustrations in colour
Topics: Evolutionary Biology