The Great American Biotic Interchange (Topics in Geobiology)

I. The An Overview.- 1 A Kaleidoscope of Plates, Faunal and Floral Dispersals, and Sea Level Changes.- 2 Caribbean Plate Relative Motions.- 3 Geochronology and Land-Mammal Biochronology of the Transamerican Faunal Interchange.- II. In the A Cretaceous-Paleogene View.- 4 Mesozoic and Cenozoic Plate Evolution of the Caribbean Region.- 5 South American Mammals in the Paleocene of North America.- 6 Herpetofaunas of North and South America during the Late Cretaceous and Evidence for Interchange?.- III. In A Tertiary View.- 7 Main Pathways of Mammalian Diversification in North America.- 8 Main Pathways of Mammalian Diversification in South America.- 9 South American Ungulate Evolution and Extinction.- 10 Northern Waif Primates and Rodents.- IV. The Great A Close View.- 11 Caribbean Tectonics from a Paleomagnetic Perspective.- 12 Sea Level, Climate, and the Central American Land Bridge.- 13 History and Development of the Marine Invertebrate Faunas Separated by the Central American Isthmus.- 14 Late Cenozoic Mammal Dispersals Between the Americas.- 15 Fossil and Recent Avifaunas and the Interamerican Exchange.- V. After the The Present View.- 16 Plants, Their Pollinating Bees, and the Great American Interchange.- 17 Patterns of Distribution of the Central American Ichthyofauna.- 18 The American Herpetofauna and the Interchange.- 19 Mammal Faunas of Xeric Habitats and the Great American Interchange.