Chapter 17: Cenozoic Mammals: Guilds and Trends

Review Questions for Chapter 17

Introduction

• Introduction to the Cenozoic Era
• Table of Geological Time Scale
• Proportional Time Scale
• Insect and Plant Fossils of the Eocene

A Survey of Mammalian Evolution

• Tertiary Mammals at the Russian Paleontological Institution
• Minor Extinction Events
• Image Gallery of Living Mammals by Group
• Checklist of Living and Extinct Mammals
• National Park Service's Miocene Mammals
• Smithsonian's Virtual Tour of Fossil Mammals

Ecological Replacement: The Guild Concept

• Kingdoms Project's Mammals Through Time and Mammal Species Dynamics Through Time

Creodonts and Carnivores: Ecological Replacement or Displacement?

• On the Discovery of a Oligocene Creodont, Apterodon macrognathus
• A Few Nice Cenozoic Mammal Fossils from California

The Savanna Story

• Savanna Mammals of the Pliocene Epoch
• National Park Service's Pliocene Mammals
• African Mammals

Visit the Source of this Image at the Know Your Toes Website

Evolution by Improvement

• Introduction to Perissodactyls: The Last of a Long Line
• Virtual Tour of the University of Michigan Exhibit Museum Display of Perissodactyls
• Amazing Feets: Know Your Toes
• The Tapir Gallery
• The Eocene "Dawn Horse" Hyracotherium
• Review of Horse Evolution or the More Comprehensive Article Here
• Fossil Horse CyberMuseum
• What Makes the "Hagerman" Horse So Important?
• The Recently Extinct Quagga
• Late Pleistocene Mammal Extinction
• The Recently Extinct Quagga
• The Sabertooth Cat, Smilodon

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