Classification of mammals : above the species level

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Classification of mammals : above the species level

Malcolm C. McKenna and Susan K. Bell ; with contributions from George G. Simpson ... [et al.]

Columbia University Press, c1997

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"A project supported by the American Museum of Natural History"

Includes bibliographical references (p. [515]-535) and indexes

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

ISBN 9780231110129

Description

Embracing more than 5,000 genera, distributed in 425 families and 46 orders, Malcolm C. McKenna and Susan K. Bell's Classification of Mammals is the most comprehensive work to date on the systematics, relationships, and occurrences of all mammal taxa, living and extinct, down through the rank of genus. Since George Gaylord Simpson's 1945 classification, the paleontological record has been recalibrated, and the intervening years have seen much debate and progress concerning the theoretical underpinnings of systematization. McKenna inherited the project from Simpson and, with Bell, has constructed a completely updated hierarchical system that reflects the genealogy of Mammalia.
Volume

paper ISBN 9780231110136

Description

Embracing more than 5,000 genera, distributed in 425 families and 46 orders, Malcolm C. McKenna and Susan K. Bell's Classification of Mammals is the most comprehensive work to date on the systematics, relationships, and occurrences of all mammal taxa, living and extinct, down through the rank of genus. Since George Gaylord Simpson's 1945 classification, the paleontological record has been recalibrated, and the intervening years have seen much debate and progress concerning the theoretical underpinnings of systematization. McKenna inherited the project from Simpson and, with Bell, has constructed a completely updated hierarchical system that reflects the genealogy of Mammalia.

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Details

  • NCID
    BA35820183
  • ISBN
    • 023111012X
    • 0231110138
  • LCCN
    97030063
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    New York
  • Pages/Volumes
    xii, 631 p., [1] folded leaf of plates
  • Size
    29 cm
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