37 research outputs found
Origin and early evolution of North American Tapiroidea
North American Eocene tapiroids evolved along two main lines, represented by the families Isectolophidae and HelaletidaeâŠ.https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/peabody_museum_natural_history_bulletin/1016/thumbnail.jp
Hallux
8 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.Includes bibliographical references (p. 8)
Amphicyonid carnivorans
11 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.Includes bibliographical references (p. 11)."Endocranial casts of 10 genera of amphicyonids, ranging in age from about 35 my to 10 my, reveal evolutionary trends of increase in relative brain size and expansion and increased folding of the neocortex. Amphicyonids had a distinctive pattern of cerebral convolutions, characterized by the presence of a long ectolateral sulcus, a short sulcus between the caudal ends of the ectolateral and suprasylvian sulci, and a complete, unopercularized ectosylvian sulcus. The ectolateral sulcus is a derived character amphicyonids share with canids, in contrast to a derived feature of basicranial circulation that links amphicyonids to ursids"--P. [1]
Fossil localities in Inner Mongolia
11 p. : 2 maps ; 24 cm.Includes bibliographical references (p. 11)
The brain of Mesonyx, a Middle Eocene mesonychid condylarth /
v.33:no.18 (1976
Hyrachyus, Chasmotherium, and the early evolution of helaletid tapiroids. American Museum novitates ; no. 2313
23 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.Includes bibliographical references (p. 23)."The rhinocerotoid family Hyrachyidae, which in its last review (Wood, 1934) included four genera and 12 species, is reduced to a subfamily, with one genus and three species, and included in the tapiroid family Helaletidae. Because the European genus Chasmotherium can be traced back to Hyrachyus (via the lineage Hyrachyus modestus (=H. 'stehlini')-Hyrachyus minimus-Chasmotherium cartieri), the monotypic subfamily Chasmotheriinae is transferred to the Helaletidae"--P. 19 & 21
The fossil record of primate brain evolution (James Arthur lecture on the evolution of the human brain, no. 49, 1979).
27 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 25-27)
Paleomoropus, a new early Eocene chalicothere (Mammalia, Perissodactyla), and a revision of Eocene chalicotheres. American Museum novitates ; no. 2179
28 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.Includes bibliographical references (p. 27-28)
A review of the Rhinocerotoid family Hyracodontidae (Perissodactyla). Bulletin of the AMNH ; v. 136, article 1
45 p., 1 leaf of plates : ill. ; 28 cm.Includes bibliographical references (p. 43-45)