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... This view underlies our analysis of immigration episodes in land mammal faunas. We attempt to test such terrestrial turnover patterns by comparing them with the isotopic record of Cenozoic climate change, which is derived independently from marine sediments.
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Key Terms

  • immigration episodes
  • immigration episode
  • land mammal
  • mammal age
  • mammal ages

  • major immigration
  • turnover episodes
  • faunal turnover
  • land mammals
  • immigrant genera

  • mammal faunas
  • turnover episode
  • mammal fauna
  • american record
  • north atlantic

  • mammalian faunas
  • late eocene
  • late pliocene
  • global climatic
  • land bridges

  • faunal succession
  • mammalian fauna


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