Main Title |
Pleistocene extinctions; the search for a cause. |
Author |
Wright, Herbert E ;
Martin, Paul Schultz
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CORP Author |
International Association for Quaternary Research. |
Publisher |
Yale University Press, |
Year Published |
1967 |
OCLC Number |
00363110 |
Subjects |
Paleontology--Pleistocene ;
Extinction (Biology) ;
Geology ;
Pleistocene Geologic Epoch ;
Pleistoceen ;
Bedreigde soorten
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Additional Subjects |
Paleontology--Pleistocene
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Holdings |
Library |
Call Number |
Additional Info |
Location |
Last Modified |
Checkout Status |
EHBM |
QE696.I55 |
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CEMM/ACESD Library/Narragansett,RI |
01/01/1988 |
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Collation |
x, 453 pages illustrations, maps 25 cm. |
Notes |
"[The congress was] sponsored by the National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council." Includes bibliographical references. |
Contents Notes |
A bestiary for Pleistocene biologists / Paul S. Martin and John E. Guilday -- Introduction / Edward S. Deevey Jr. -- Prehistoric overkill / Paul S. Martin -- Differential extinction during late-Pleistocene and Recent times / John E. Guilday -- The late-Pleistocene extinction and diminution in size of many mammalian species / William Ellis Edwards -- Animal ranges as a clue to late-Pleistocene extinction / Bob H. Slaughter -- The agency of man in animal extinctions / James J. Hester -- Man's role in the extinction of Pleistocene faunas / Arthur J. Jelinek -- Late-Cenozoic patterns of plant extinction / Estella B. Leopold -- The environment of extinction of the late-Pleistocene megafauna in the arid southwestern United States / Peter J. Mehringer Jr. -- Carbon-14 dates and early man in the New World / C. Vance Haynes Jr. -- Late-Pleistocene and Holocene faunal history of central Texas / Ernest L. Lundelius Jr. -- Four superimposed late-Pleistocene vertebrate faunas from southwest Kansas / Gerald E. Schultz -- Associations of early man with horse, camel, and mastodon at Hueyatlaco, Valsequillo (Puebla, Mexico) / Cynthia Irwin-Williams -- The Pleistocene extinction of mammals in Europe / Kazimierz Kowalski -- Primitive hunters and Pleistocene extinction in the Soviet Union / N.K. Vereshchagin -- Pleistocene vertebrates of the Netherlands Antilles / D.A. Hooijer -- Ecologic changes in protohistoric Madagascar / R. Battistini and P. Verin -- Patterns of extinction among the subfossil Madagascan lemuroids / Alan Walker. [The congress was] sponsored by the National Academy of Sciences - National Research Council. |
Place Published |
New Haven, |
PUB Date Free Form |
1967. |
Series Author |
Its Proceedings of the VII congress, v.6 |
Document Type |
BC |
Cataloging Source |
OCLC/U |
LCCN |
67024502 |
Merged OCLC records |
712526; 30272943 |
Origin |
OCLC |
Type |
CAT |