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DOI10.1007/s10914-012-9222-1
Paleogene Land Mammal Faunas of South America; a Response to Global Climatic Changes and Indigenous Floral Diversity
Woodburne, Michael O.1; Goin, Francisco J.2; Bond, Mariano2; Carlini, Alfredo A.2; Gelfo, Javier N.2; Lopez, Guillermo M.2,4; Iglesias, A.3; Zimicz, Ana N.2
通讯作者Woodburne, Michael O.
来源期刊JOURNAL OF MAMMALIAN EVOLUTION
ISSN1064-7554
EISSN1573-7055
出版年2014
卷号21期号:1页码:1-73
英文摘要

An appraisal of Paleogene floral and land mammal faunal dynamics in South America suggests that both biotic elements responded at rate and extent generally comparable to that portrayed by the global climate pattern of the interval. A major difference in the South American record is the initial as well as subsequent much greater diversity of both Neotropical and Austral floras relative to North American counterparts. Conversely, the concurrent mammal faunas in South America did not match, much less exceed, the diversity seen to the north. It appears unlikely that this difference is solely due to the virtual absence of immigrants subsequent to the initial dispersal of mammals to South America, and cannot be explained solely by the different collecting histories of the two regions. Possible roles played by non-mammalian vertebrates in niche exploitation remain to be explored.


The Paleogene floras of Patagonia and Chile show a climatic pattern that approximates that of North America, with an increase in both Mean Annual Temperature (MAT) and Mean Annual Precipitation (MAP) from the Paleocene into the Early Eocene Climatic Optimum (EECO), although the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) is not recognized in the available data set. Post-EECO temperatures declined in both regions, but more so in the north than the south, which also retained a higher rate of precipitation.


The South American Paleogene mammal faunas developed gradual, but distinct, changes in composition and diversity as the EECO was approached, but actually declined somewhat during its peak, contrary to the record in North America. At about 40 Ma, a post-EECO decline was recovered in both hemispheres, but the South American record achieved its greatest diversity then, rather than at the peak of the EECO as in the north. This post-EECO faunal turnover apparently was a response to the changing conditions when global climate was deteriorating toward the Oligocene. Under the progressively more temperate to seasonally arid conditions in South America, this turnover reflected a major change from the more archaic, and more tropical to subtropical-adapted mammals, to the beginning of the ultimately modern South American fauna, achieved completely by the Eocene-Oligocene transition. Interestingly, hypsodonty was achieved by South American cursorial mammals about 15-20 m.y. earlier than in North America. In addition to being composed of essentially different groups of mammals, those of the South American continent seem to have responded to the climatic changes associated with the ECCO and subsequent conditions in a pattern that was initially comparable to, but subsequently different from, their North American counterparts.


英文关键词South America Biotic change Evolution Paleontology Early Cenozoic
类型Article
语种英语
国家USA ; Argentina
收录类别SCI-E
WOS记录号WOS:000330593700001
WOS关键词EOCENE THERMAL MAXIMUM ; SAN JORGE BASIN ; LATE OLIGOCENE ; LATE PALEOCENE ; PLANT DIVERSITY ; MIDDLE EOCENE ; PALEOENVIRONMENTAL EVOLUTION ; NORTHERN PATAGONIA ; TINGUIRIRICA FAUNA ; HUITRERA FORMATION
WOS类目Evolutionary Biology ; Zoology
WOS研究方向Evolutionary Biology ; Zoology
资源类型期刊论文
条目标识符http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/183535
作者单位1.Museum Northern Arizona, Dept Geol, Flagstaff, AZ 86001 USA;
2.Consejo Nacl Invest Cient & Tecn, Museo La Plata, Div Paleontol Vertebrados, La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina;
3.Consejo Nacl Invest Cient & Tecn, Museo La Plata, Div Paleobot, La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina;
4.Museo La Plata, Div Paleontol Vertebrados, La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Woodburne, Michael O.,Goin, Francisco J.,Bond, Mariano,et al. Paleogene Land Mammal Faunas of South America; a Response to Global Climatic Changes and Indigenous Floral Diversity[J],2014,21(1):1-73.
APA Woodburne, Michael O..,Goin, Francisco J..,Bond, Mariano.,Carlini, Alfredo A..,Gelfo, Javier N..,...&Zimicz, Ana N..(2014).Paleogene Land Mammal Faunas of South America; a Response to Global Climatic Changes and Indigenous Floral Diversity.JOURNAL OF MAMMALIAN EVOLUTION,21(1),1-73.
MLA Woodburne, Michael O.,et al."Paleogene Land Mammal Faunas of South America; a Response to Global Climatic Changes and Indigenous Floral Diversity".JOURNAL OF MAMMALIAN EVOLUTION 21.1(2014):1-73.
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