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Mammalian Faunal Dynamics of the Great American Interchange: Reply to an Alternative Interpretation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 April 2016

S. David Webb
S. David Webb*
Affiliation:
Florida State Museum, Gainesville, Florida 32611
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In their “alternative interpretation” Marshall and Hecht raise two interesting questions:

  1. I) Is “Taxocene Analysis” a permissible approach to community evolution, and if so under what conditions?

  2. II) What really happened to the ten South American ungulate genera that vanished during the Early Pleistocene?

As these are fundamentally different questions, I shall consider each separately.

Type
Faunal Equilibrium?
Information
Paleobiology , Volume 4 , Issue 2 , Spring 1978 , pp. 206 - 209
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Copyright © The Paleontological Society 

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