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... New mammalian taxa included numerous taxa adapted to eating coarse fodder (see Webb and Opdyke, Chapter 1 1~. By mid-Miocene time, the diversification of taxa adapted to grassy habitats had produced the greatest North American land mammal diversity of all time, in savannas that were the biotic equivalents of those in Africa today.
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  • land mammal
  • mass extinction
  • american land
  • cenozoic mammals
  • late eocene

  • severe extinction
  • global climatic


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