Ice Age Mammals of North America A Guide to the Big, the Hairy, and the Bizarre

Name: Ice Age Mammals of North America A Guide to the Big, the Hairy, and the Bizarre
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ISBN: 9780878424030

ISBN-10: 0878424032

ISBN-13: 9780878424030

Edition: 2002 (Revised)

Authors: Ian Lange, Dorothy S. Norton

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List price: $20.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Mountain Press Publishing Company, Incorporated
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 7.50" wide x 9.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.430

A series of articles in Lifemagazine sparked Ian Lange's fascination with Ice Age animals when he was a teenager. Paintings of gargantuan beasts and a photo of a baby woolly mammoth frozen in the arctic tundra set him wondering about the Pleistocene world and its inhabitants. A retired professor of economic geology at the University of Montana in Missoula, Lange maintains his research of Ice Age animals as a hobby.

Preface	p. vii
Dinosaurs and Woolly Mammoths	p. 1
A Cast of Continents	p. 9
The Pleistocene Epoch	p. 21
Why the Ice Ages?	p. 49
The Pleistocene Animals	p. 65
Xenarthrans or Edentates--Order Xenarthra--Sloths and Armadillos	p. 69
Carnivores--Order Carnivora	p. 92
Rodents--Order Rodentia	p. 117
Odd-Toed Ungulates--Order Perissodactyla--Horses, Rhinos, and Tapirs	p. 121
Even-Toed Ungulates--Order Artiodactyla--Deer, Bison, and Camels	p. 137
Elephants and Their Relatives--Order Proboscidea	p. 163
Extinctions: Why Are the Big Guys Gone?	p. 181
Selected Sites to Visit: Museums, Fossil Sites, and Web Sites	p. 199
Glossary	p. 211
Bibliography	p. 213
Index	p. 219
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