Volume 1 of Hominoid Evolution and Climatic Change in Europe Edited by Jorge Agusti Lorenzo Rook and Peter Andrews Cambridge University Press 1999 FROM THE BOOK JACKET: Europe has changed greatly in terms of climate and environment in the past 20 million years. Once, there were sub-tropical forests, but by the end of the Miocene, 5 million years ago, these had all gone. This unique book provides evidence for the past climatic history of Europe and the Mediterranean in the relation to hominoid evolution. Many different lines of evidence are brought together including studies specifically on past climates and the application of climate modeling, the reconstruction of past geographical events, and the effects they had on European environments and the plants and animals living in them. Together, they form a coherent and consistent image of environmental and climatic change in Europe from 18 to 1.6 million years ago, for all those interested in mammalian and human evolution. * Jorge Agusti is Director of the Institute of Paleontology, M. Crusafont, in Sabadell, Spain. He specializes in the evolution of the Neogene and Quaternary small mammalian faunas in relation to environmental changes in the Mediterranean region. * Lorenzo Rook is a researcher in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Florence, working on fossil primates and carnivora and on Neogene/Quaternary biochronology. * Peter Andrews is a research scientist at the Natural History Museum in London, where he works on fossil primates, taphonomic and palaeoecological issues relating to the early stages of human evolution CONTENTS List of contributors x Acknowledgements: The European Science Foundation xvii 1. Introduction: Jorge Agusti, Lorenzo Rook and Peter Andrews 1 PART I. Palaeogeography of the circum-Mediterranean region 7 2. Mediterranean and Paratethys palaeogeography during the Oligocene and Miocene 8 Fred Rogl 3. Pliocene tephra correlations between East African hominid localities, the Gulf of Aden, and the Arabian Sea 23 Peter B. deMenocal and Francis H. Brown 4. Climatic perspectives for Neogene environmental reconstructions 55 Eileen M. O'Brien and Charles R. Peters PART II. Miocene mammalian successions 83 5. A critical re-evaluation of the Miocene mammal units in Western Europe: dispersal events and problems of correlation 84 Jorge Agusti 6. Large mammals from the Vallesian of Spain 113 Jorge Morales, Manuel Nieto, Meike Kholer and Saluador Moya-Sola 7. Trends in rodent assemblages from the Aragonian (early-middle Miocene) of the Calatayud-Daroca Basin, Aragon, Spain 127 Remmert Daams, Albert J. van der Meulen, Pablo Pelaez- Campomanes and Maria A. Alvarez-Sierra 8. The Late Miocene small mammal succession from France, with emphasis on the Rhone Valley localities 140 Pierre Mein 9. Late Miocene mammals from Central Europe 165 Jens Lorenz Franzen and Gerhard Storch 10. An overview on the Italian Miocene land mammal faunas 191 Lorenzo Rook, Laura Abbazzi and Burkhart Engesser 11. The Miocene large mammal succession in Greece 205 Louis de Bonis and George D. Koufos 12. Chronology and mammal faunas of the Miocene Sinap Formation, Turkey 238 Juha Pekka Lunkka, Mikael Fortelius, John Kappelman and Seuket Sen 13. The Late Miocene small mammal succession in Ukraine 265 Valentin A. Nesin and Vadim A. Topachevsky PART III. Palaeoenvironments: non-mammalian evidence 273 14. Marine invertebrate (chiefly foraminiferal) evidence for the palaeogeography of the Oligocene-Miocene of western Eurasia, and consequences for terrestrial vertebrate migration 274 Robert Wynn Jones 15. Palaeoclimatic implications of the energy hypothesis from Neogene corals of the Mediterranean region 309 Brian R. Rosen 16. Contribution to the knowledge of Neogene climatic changes in western and central Europe by means of non-marine molluscs 328 Daniela Esu 17. Sedimentary facies analysis in palaeoclimatic reconstructions. Examples from the Upper Miocene-Pliocene successions of south-central Tuscany (Italy) 355 Marco Benvenuti, Mauro Papini and Giovanni Testa 18. Neogene vegetation changes in West European and West circum-Mediterranean areas 378 Jean-Pierre Suc, Severine Fauquette, Mostefa Bessedik, Adele Bertini, Zhuo Zheng, Georges Clauzon, Danica Suballyova, Filomena Diniz, Pierre Quezel, Najat Feddi, Martine Clet, the late Ezzedine Bessais, Naima Bachiri Taoufiq, Henriette Meon and Nathalie Combourieu-Nebout PART IV. Palaeoenvironments: mammalian evidence 19. Shrews (Mammalia, Insectivora, Soricidae) as paleoclimatic indicators in the European Neogene 390 Jelle W. F. Reumer 20. Mammal turnover and global climate change in the late Miocene terrestrial record of the Valles-Penedes basin (NE Spain) 397 Jorge Agusti, Lluis Cabrera, Miguel Garces and Manel Llenas 21. Palaeoenvironments of late Miocene primate localities in Macedonia, Greece 413 Louis de Bonis, Genevieve Bouvrain and George D. Koufos 22. The paleoecology of the Pikermian Biome and the savanna myth 436 Nikos Solounias, J. Michael Plaucan, Jay Quade and Lawrence Witmer 23. Vicariance biogeography and paleoecology of Eurasian Miocene hominoid primates 454 Peter Andrews and Raymond L. Bernor WHERE TO ORDER: Cambridge University Press 40 West 20th Street New York, NY 10011-4211, USA Phone: 1-800-872-7423 Fax: 914-937-4712 Web site: http://www.cambridge.org Price: $100.00 (Hardbound) ISBN: 0-521-64097-0
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