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DOI | 10.1007/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
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ISSN | 1064-7554 |
EISSN | 1573-7055 |
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 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | 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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