Carnivoran Evolution

New Views on Phylogeny, Form and Function

By: Anjali Goswami (Editor), Anthony Friscia (Editor)

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Members of the mammalian clade Carnivora have invaded nearly every continent and ocean, evolving into bamboo-eating pandas, clam-eating walruses and of course, flesh-eating sabre-toothed cats. With this ecological, morphological and taxonomic diversity and a fossil record spanning over sixty million years, Carnivora has proven to be a model clade for addressing questions of broad evolutionary significance. This volume brings together top international scientists with contributions that focus on current advances in our understanding of carnivoran relationships, ecomorphology and macroevolutionary patterns. Topics range from the palaeoecology of the earliest fossil carnivorans to the influences of competition and constraint on diversity and biogeographic distributions. Several studies address ecomorphological convergences among carnivorans and other mammals with morphometric and Finite Element analyses, while others consider how new molecular and palaeontological data have changed our understanding of carnivoran phylogeny. Combined, these studies also illustrate the diverse suite of approaches and questions in evolutionary biology and palaeontology.

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"The language and many of the chosen chapters are written for the scientist; specifically, the paleomammalogist that is interested in select details. For this audience and this audience alone, the volume is without question a worthwhile addition to the library." Richard A. Kissel, American Paleontologist

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Contributors	p. vii
Preface	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. xii
Introduction to Carnivora	p. 1
Phylogeny of the Carnivora and Carnivoramorpha, and the use of the fossil record to enhance understanding of evolutionary transformations	p. 25
Phylogeny of the Viverridae and 'Viverrid-like' feliforms	p. 64
Molecular and morphological evidence for Ailuridae and a review of its genera	p. 92
The influence of character correlations on phylogenetic analyses: a case study of the carnivoran cranium	p. 141
What's the difference? A multiphasic allometric analysis of fossil and living lions	p. 165
Evolution in Carnivora: identifying a morphological bias	p. 189
The biogeography of carnivore ecomorphology	p. 225
Comparative ecomorphology and biogeography of Herpestidae and Viverridae (Carnivora) in Africa and Asia	p. 246
Ecomorphological analysis of carnivore guilds in the Eocene through Miocene of Laurasia	p. 269
Ecomorphology of North American Eocene carnivores: evidence for competition between Carnivorans and Creodonts	p. 311
Morphometric analysis of cranial morphology in pinnipeds (Mammalia, Carnivora): convergence, ecology, ontogeny, and dimorphism	p. 342
Tiptoeing through the trophics: geographic variation in carnivoran locomotor ecomorphology in relation to environment	p. 374
Interpreting sabretooth cat (Carnivora; Felidae; Machairodontinae) postcranial morphology in light of scaling patterns in felids	p. 411
Cranial mechanics of mammalian carnivores: recent advances using a finite element approach	p. 466
Index	p. 486
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