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... Another substantial wave of immigrants from Asia altered the makeup of the North American mammal fauna and spurred the course of its evolution. It is awkward from a nomenclatural view that this turnover episode falls within the Hemingfordian land mammal age and is not very far removed in time from the previous turnover episode.
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Key Terms

  • immigration episode
  • land mammal
  • mammal age
  • major immigration
  • immigrant genera

  • middle miocene
  • turnover episode
  • white river
  • mammal fauna
  • woodland savanna

  • river chronofauna
  • body size
  • american mammal
  • arid climate


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