Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Contributors ix
4. Preface xv
5. C.S. 'Rufus' Churcher - The man from Aldershot xvii
6. North American Quaternary Mammals: Palaeoecology and Palaeoenvironments
7. Diversity bottlenecks, oddball survivors, and negative keys 1
8. Comparison of mammalian response to glacialinterglacial transitions in the middle and late Pleistocene 16
9. Review of Pleistocene zoogeography of prairie dogs (genus Cynomys) in western Canada with notes on their burrow architecture 34
10. Pleistocene and Holocene vertebrates as models for the study of evolutionary patterns 54
11. Selective mortality of mastodons (Mammut americanum) from the Port Kennedy Cave (Pleistocene; lrvingtonian), Montgomery County, Pennsylvania 83
12. Middle Pleistocene (early Rancholabrean) vertebrates and associated marine and non-marine invertebrates from Oldsmar, Pinellas County, Florida 97
13. Population structure of the late Pliocene (Blancan) zebra Equus simplicidens (Perissodactyla: Equidae) from the Hagerman Horse Quarry, Idaho 134
14. Current status of North American Sangamonian local faunas and vertebrate taxa 156
15. Distribution and size variation in North American Short-faced bears, Arctodus simus 191
16. Origin of the vertebrate fossil sites near Medicine Hat, Alberta 247
17. North American Quaternary Mammals: Faunas and Morphological Analyses
18. A preliminary report on the Carnivore of Porcupine Cave, Park County, Colorado 259
19. Force generation by the jaw adductor musculature at different gapes in the Pleistocene sabretoothed felid Smilodon 283
20. A review of Pleistocene giant armadillos (Mammalia, Xenarthra, Pampatheriidae) 300
21. A spectacular specimen of the elk-moose Cervalces scotti from Noble County, Indiana, U.S.A. 322
22. Tracking Ice Age felids: Identification of tracks of Panthera atroxfrom a cave in southern Missouri, U.S.A. 331
23. Pleistocene mammals of Dublin Gulch and the Mayo District, Yukon Territory 346
24. The masticatory apparatus of the American mastodon (Mammut americanum) 375
25. Pleistocene caribou (Rangifer tarandus) in the eastern United States: New records and range extensions 406
26. Dental evolution and size change in the North American muskrat: Classification and tempo of a presumed phyletic sequence 431
27. Early Rancholabrean mammals from Salamander Cave, Black Hills, South Dakota 458
28. Late and middle Pleistocene vertebrate fossils from Old Crow Basin, Locality CRH 15, northern Yukon Territory 483
29. Late Cenozoic Mammals of Africa Palaeoecology and Palaeoenvironments
30. Antlers in America: Ossicones in Africa 522
31. Sexual dimorphism in Antidorcas recki from Bolt's Farm, South Africa, in the University of California collections 537
32. A review of Dietrich's hipparions from South Serengeti (Tanzania) and a comparison with similar materials 554
33. A fossil Budorcas (Mammalia, Bovidae) from Africa 571
34. Basicranial anatomy of the giant viverrid from 'E' Quarry, Langebaanweg, South Africa 588
35. The identification of Equus skulls to species, with particular reference to the craniometric and systematic affinities of the extinct South African quagga 598
36. Temporal variability in horn-core dimensions of Damaliscus nirofrom Olduvai, Sterkfontein, Cornelia, and Florisbad 630
37. The fossil and living Hyaenidae of Africa: Present status 637
38. Is the rodent Acomys a murine? An evaluation using morphometric techniques 660