Palaeoecology and Palaeoenvironments of Late Cenozoic Mammals

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1 Palaeoecology and Palaeoenvironments of Late Cenozoic Mammals Tributes to the Career of C.S. (Rufus) Churcher Edited by Kathlyn M. Stewart and Kevin L. Seymour UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS Toronto Buffalo London

2 Contents Contributors / ix Preface / xv C.S. 'Rufus' Churcher - The man from Aldershot / xvii K.L. Seymour Churcher bibliography / xxii K.L. Seymour North American Quaternary Mammals: Palaeoecology and Palaeoenvironments Diversity bottlenecks, oddball survivors, and negative keys / 3 W.A. Akersten Comparison of mammalian response to glacial-interglacial transitions in the middle and late Pleistocene / 16 A.D. Barnosky, T.I. Rouse, E.A. Hadly, D.L. Wood, F.L. Keesing, and V.A. Schmidt Review of Pleistocene zoogeography of prairie dogs (genus Cynomys) in western Canada with notes on their burrow architecture / 34 ].A. Burns

3 vi Contents Pleistocene and Holocene vertebrates as models for the study of evolutionary patterns / 54 R.L. Carroll Selective mortality of mastodons (Mammut americanum) from the Port Kennedy Cave (Pleistocene; Irvingtonian), Montgomery County, Pennsylvania / 83 E.B. Daeschler Middle Pleistocene (early Rancholabrean) vertebrates and associated marine and non-marine invertebrates from Oldsmar, Pinellas County, Florida / 97 P.F. Karrow, G.S. Morgan, R.W. Portell, E. Simons, and K. Auffenberg Population structure of the late Pliocene (Blancan) zebra Equus sintplicidens (Perissodactyla: Equidae) from the Hagerman Horse Quarry, Idaho / 134 E.G. McDonald Current status of North American Sangamonian local faunas and vertebrate taxa / 156 J.D. Pinsof Distribution and size variation in North American Short-faced bears, Arctodus sintus / 191 R.L. Richards, C.S. Churcher, and W.D. Turnbull Origin of the vertebrate fossil sites near Medicine Hat, Alberta / 247 A. MacS. Stalker North American Quaternary Mammals: Faunas and Morphological Analyses A preliminary report on the Carnivora of Porcupine Cave, Park County, Colorado / 259 E. Anderson Force generation by the jaw adductor musculature at different gapes in the Pleistocene sabretoothed felid Smilodon / 283 H.N. Bryant A review of Pleistocene giant armadillos (Mammalia, Xenarthra, Pampatheriidae) / 300 A.G. Edmund

4 A spectacular specimen of the elk-moose Cervalces scotti from Noble County, Indiana, U.S.A. / 322 J.O. Farlow and J. McClain Contents vii Tracking Ice Age felids: Identification of tracks of Panthera atrox from a cave in southern Missouri, U.S.A. / 331 R.W. Graham, J.O. Farlow, and J.E. Vandike Pleistocene mammals of Dublin Gulch and the Mayo District, Yukon Territory / 346 C.R. Harington The masticatory apparatus of the American mastodon (Mammut americanum) / 375 R.S. Laub Pleistocene caribou (Rangifer tarandus) in the eastern United States: New records and range extensions / 406 J.N. McDonald, C.E. Ray, and F. Grady Dental evolution and size change in the North American muskrat: Classification and tempo of a presumed phyletic sequence / 431 R.A. Martin Early Rancholabrean mammals from Salamander Cave, Black Hills, South Dakota / 458 J.I. Mead, C. Manganaro, C.A. Repenning, and L.D. Agenbroad Late and middle Pleistocene vertebrate fossils from Old Crow Basin, Locality CRH15, northern Yukon Territory / 483 R.E. Morlan Late Cenozoic Mammals of Africa Palaeoecology and Palaeoenvironments Antlers in America: Ossicones in Africa / 522 E.H. Colbert Sexual dimorphism in Antidorcas recki from Bolt's Farm, South Africa, in the University of California collections / 537 H.B.S. Cooke A review of Dietrich's hipparions from South Serengeti (Tanzania) and a comparison with similar materials / 554 A. Forsten

5 viii Contents A fossil Budorcas (Mammalia, Bovidae) from Africa / 571 AW. Gentry Basicranial anatomy of the giant viverrid from 'E' Quarry, Langebaanweg, South Africa /588 R.M. Hunt, Jr The identification of Equus skulls to species, with particular reference to the craniometric and systematic affinities of the extinct South African quagga / 598 R.G. Klein and K. Cruz-Uribe Temporal variability in horn-core dimensions of Damaliscus niro from Olduvai, Sterkfontein, Cornelia, and Florisbad / 631 J.F. Thackeray, J.S. Brink, and I. Plug The fossil and living Hyaenidae of Africa: Present status / 637 L. Werdelin and A. Turner Is the rodent Acotnys a murine? An evaluation using morphometric techniques / 660 X. Xu, A.J. Winkler, and L.L. Jacobs