Tributes to Malcolm C. McKenna : his students, his legacy. Bulletin of the AMNH ; no. 285

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245 p. : ill., map ; 26 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
Preface / Gina C. Gould and Susan K. Bell ; with contributions from James S. Mellett -- 1. Malcolm C. McKenna : a biography and bibliography / Susan K. Bell -- 2. The ankle structure of two pterodactyloid pterosaurs from the Santana Formation (Lower Cretaceous), Brazil / Alexander W.A. Kellner -- 3. Diversity of early Cretaceous mammals from Victoria, Australia / Thomas H. Rich and Patricia Vickers-Rich -- 4. The anterior dentition of the late Jurassic multituberculate Ctenacodon / George F. Engelmann -- 5. Marsupial mammals from the Albian-Cenomanian (early-late Cretaceous) boundary, Utah / Richard L. Cifelli -- 6. A polydolopine marsupial skull from the Cachapoal Valley, Andean main range, Chile / John J. Flynn and André R. Wyss -- 7. Phylogeny and divergence of basal Glires / Jin Meng -- 8. Adaptation and the origin of rodents / Leigh Van Valen -- 9. Assessing statistical techniques for detecting multispecies samples of heteromyids in the fossil record : a test using extant Dipodomys / Marc A. Carrasco -- 10. The edentulous skull of the North American pangolin, Patriomanis americanus / Robert J. Emry -- 11. Global climate and the evolution of large mammalian carnivores during the later Cenozoic in North America / Robert M. Hunt, Jr. -- 12. New felid material from the Ulaan Tologoi locality, Loh Formation (early Miocene) of Mongolia / Tom Rothwell -- 13. Humeri of Oligoscalops (Proscalopidae, Mammalia) from the Oligocene of Mongolia / Jonathan H. Geisler -- 14. The basicranial and posterior cranial anatomy of the families of the Toxodontia / Sherri L. Gabbert -- 15. Moropus merriami in the early Barstovian Lower Snake Creek fauna of Nebraska, with comments on biogeography of North American chalicotheres / Margery C. Coombs -- 16. A revised dental nomenclature for fossil horses / Robert L. Evander -- 17. Gigantism, dwarfism, and Cope's rule : "Nothing in evolution makes sense without a phylogeny" / Gina C. Gould and Bruce J. MacFadden -- 18. North American mammalian chronostratigraphy : the contributions of Malcolm C. McKenna / Donald R. Prothero.

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