This title is not yet available. You may pre-order this item and it will be shipped to you when it is available. A paleobiography of a region now beginning to yield its secrets Urumaco and Venezuelan Paleontology offers a synthesis of the paleontological record of Venezuela, including new discoveries on stratigraphy, paleobotany, fossil invertebrates, and vertebrates. Besides providing a critical summary of the record of decapods, fishes, crocodiles, turtles, rodents, armadillos, and ungulates, several chapters introduce new information on the distribution and paleobiology of groups not previously studied in this part of the world. Given its position in the northern neotropics, close to the Panamanian land bridge, Venezuela is a key location for understanding faunal exchanges between the Americas in the recent geological past. The book reviews the recent paleobotanical and vertebrate fossil record of the region, provides an understanding of Pleistocene climatic change and biogeography for the last few thousand years, and integrates new information with summaries of Spanish language works on Venezuelan geology and paleontology.
Visit the website for Marcelo R. Sánchez-Villagra's lab.
Marcelo R. Sánchez-Villagra is Assistant Professor of Paleontology at the University of Zürich.
Orangel A. Aguilera is Professor Emeritus at the Universidad Francisco de Miranda in Coro.
Alfredo A. Carlini is a researcher at the Argentinian Research Council (CONICET) and a faculty member of the Universidad de La Plata in Argentina.
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Distribution: World Publication date: 6/1/2010 |
