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Analysis of changing diversity patterns in Cenozoic land mammal age faunas, South America
Published online: 30/03/1990
Keywords:
Cenozoic; Chronofaunas; diversity; Equilibrium theory; Extinction; Land mammal faunas; Origination; South America
https://doi.org/10.18563/pv.19.4.169-210
References: 79
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Larry G. Marshall and Richard L. Cifelli, 1990. Analysis of changing diversity patterns in Cenozoic land mammal age faunas, South America. PalaeoVertebrata 19 (4): 169-210. doi: 10.18563/pv.19.4.169-210
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Comparison of various measurements of taxonomic evolution using stratigraphic range data for orders, families and genera of land mammals indicates several means by which deficiencies of the South American fossil record (e.g., presence of hiatuses, unequal temporal and geographic representation of ages, unequal systematic treatment) may be normalized, thus permitting a less distorted appreciation of diversity pattern and trend. Initial radiation of native taxa resulted in a relative equilibrium by early Eocene time. Subsequent increases in absolute diversity were apparently induced by immigration at the family level and by environmental factors at the generic level. Miocene through Pleistocene phases of faunal stability, herein characterized as chronofaunas, are punctuated by rapid turnover events resulting from a complex of factors, including adaptive radiation of immigrant taxa into unoccupied eco-space; environmental and concomitant habitat change induced by orogenic events of the Andes; and biotic interactions between native and immigrant taxa, including competition and prey naivete. The first two factors account for major faunal transitions in the South American middle and late Tertiary; immigration-induced turnover may have been of greater importance in shaping the character of the fauna upon the Great American Interchange and the arrival of man in the Neotropics
Published in Vol. 19, Fasc. 4 (1990)
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