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By William Berryman Scott
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The work surveys the fossil record of terrestrial mammals across the Americas, outlining successive faunal assemblages from early epochs through the Pleistocene and examining patterns of evolution and extinction. It combines descriptive accounts of notable discoveries and museum holdings with explanatory chapters on mammalian skeletons, dentition, classification, and geological context, offering a nontechnical glossary and guidance for readers to interpret bones and teeth. Illustrated plates and drawings support discussions of major groups and paleontological methods, while attention to comparative anatomy and stratigraphic evidence links fossil forms to broader questions of environmental change and biogeographic history.

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Title: A history of land mammals in the western hemisphere

Author: William Berryman Scott

Release date: January 14, 2025 [eBook #75110]

Language: English

Original publication: New York: The MacMillan Company, 1913

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A HISTORY OF LAND MAMMALS IN
THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE

THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
NEW YORK · BOSTON · CHICAGO · DALLAS
ATLANTA · SAN FRANCISCO

MACMILLAN & CO., Limited
LONDON · BOMBAY · CALCUTTA
MELBOURNE

THE MACMILLAN CO. OF CANADA, Ltd.
TORONTO

Frontispiece.—A Pleistocene tar-pool in southern California: †Giant Wolves (Canis †dirus) and †Sabre-tooth Tiger (†Smilodon californicus) on the carcass of an elephant (Elephas †columbi). The elephant is hairless, as may have been true of the southern race.

A
HISTORY OF LAND MAMMALS
IN THE
WESTERN HEMISPHERE

BY
WILLIAM B. SCOTT
Ph.D. (Heidelberg), Hon.D.Sc. (Harvard & Oxford), LL.D. (Univ. of Pennsylvania)
BLAIR PROFESSOR OF GEOLOGY AND PALÆONTOLOGY
IN PRINCETON UNIVERSITY

ILLUSTRATED WITH 32 PLATES AND MORE THAN 100 DRAWINGS
BY BRUCE HORSFALL

New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1913

All rights reserved

Copyright, 1913,
By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.

Set up and electrotyped. Published November, 1913.

Norwood Press
J. S. Cushing Co.—Berwick & Smith Co.
Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.