Images for Chapter 17 Cenozoic Mammals

The great groups of placental mammals

The Paleocene/Eocene boundary

The Eocene

The Fossils of Messel

• Messel horse
• A fossil of a pregnant early horse from the Eocene of Messel. BBC News OnLine, November 2001.
• Pholidocercus. University of Bonn.
• Bat from Messel

The Eocene bat Icaronycteris

Ecological Replacement: The Guild Concept

• Astrapotherium. Figure 17.4.
• Arsinoitherium
• Titanotheres . Figure 17.7.
• The creodont Limnocyon
• Drepanodon, early sabertooth (Oligocene).
• Costa Rican land crab.

Cenozoic Mammals in Dinosaur Guilds

• Uintatherium
• Brontops.

Evolution by Improvement

Horses

• Phylogram of perissodactyls. Figure 17.10.
• Horse feet. Figure 17.12
• Hyracotherium
• Hyracotherium feet
• Miohippus from the Florida Museum of Natural History.
• Parahippus
• Merychippus
• Pliohippus
• Neohipparion
• Equus
• Hippidion from South America.
• Horse biogeography. Figure 17.13.

Whales

• Andrewsarchus and Prozeuglodon
• Mesonychian
• RodhocetusNational Geographic News.
• Rodhocetus paddling
• Ambulocetus skeleton
• Ambulocetus skeleton, drawing
• Ambulocetus painting
• Pakicetus.
• Kutchicetus
• Basilosaurus skeleton
• Zygorhiza skeleton
• Right whale skeleton.

Walking sea-cows!!

Elephants

More Images of Cenozoic Mammals

• Diacodexis, early artiodactyl
• Phenacodus
• Miocene camel Oxydactylus

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