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| Phylogenetic systematics of the Borophaginae (Carnivora, Canidae). Bulletin of the AMNH ; no. 243 |
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| Title: | Phylogenetic systematics of the Borophaginae (Carnivora, Canidae). Bulletin of the AMNH ; no. 243 |
| Other Titles: | Systematics of Borophaginae |
| Authors: | Wang, Xiaoming, 1957- Tedford, Richard H. Taylor, Beryl E. |
| Issue Date: | 1999 |
| Publisher: | [New York] : American Museum of Natural History |
| Series/Report no.: | Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History ; no. 243 |
| Abstract: | "The subfamily Borophaginae (Canidae, Carnivora, Mammalia) was erected by G.G. Simpson in 1945 to include seven genera of large, bone-crushing "dogs" in the late Tertiary of the northern continents. As a monophyletic group of canids, the Borophaginae is now known to be much more diverse than was originally envisioned but is confined within the middle to late Tertiary of North America. Fossil records of the borophagines are well represented and members of this prolific clade are often the most common predators in the late Tertiary deposits. Largely due to the Childs Frick Collection at the American Museum of Natural History, borophagines are represented by some of the best materials among fossil carnivorans in anatomical representation, sample size, and stratigraphic density. As a result of this explosive growth of new information, borophagine systematics is now in need of a complete rethinking at a level that could not have been attempted by previous studies. A detailed study of boro... |
| Description: | 391 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 344-356). |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2246/1588 |
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