Classification of Mammals: Above the Species Level

by Malcolm McKenna, Susan K. Bell

Overview

Embracing more than 5,000 genera, distributed in 425 families and 46 orders, Malcolm C. McKenna and Susan K. Bell's Classification of Mammals is the most comprehensive work to date on the systematics, relationships, and occurrences of all mammal taxa, living and extinct, down through the rank of genus.

Since George Gaylord Simpson's 1945 classification, the paleontological record has been recalibrated, and the intervening years have seen much debate and progress concerning the theoretical underpinnings of systematization. McKenna inherited the project from Simpson and, with Bell, has constructed a completely updated hierarchical system that reflects the genealogy of Mammalia.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780231110136
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Publication date:	03/07/2000
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	640
Product dimensions:	8.52(w) x 10.98(h) x 1.33(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Malcolm C. McKenna and Susan K. Bell are members of the Division of Paleontology at the American Museum of Natural History.

Editorial Reviews

An extremely useful book.

Choice - F. S. Szalay

As a reference work especially for fossil mammals it is without rival.

Paläontologie - D. C. Kalthoff

An extremely useful book.

Choice - F.S. Szalay

As a reference work especially for fossil mammals it is without rival.

Palaontologie - D.C. Kalthoff

An extremely useful book.

— F. S. Szalay

Choice

As a reference work especially for fossil mammals it is without rival.

— D. C. Kalthoff

Palaontologie

An extremely useful book.

F. S. Szalay

As a reference work especially for fossil mammals it is without rival.

D. C. Kalthoff

As a reference work especially for fossil mammals it is without rival.
— Paläontologie

D.C. Kalthoff

Will be in use for the next 50 years. . . . The classification of extant and fossil mammals by McKenna and Bell will be the classic reference work for all investigators interested in mammalian evolutionary biology.

Jean-Louis Hartenberger

An extremely useful book.
— Choice

F.S. Szalay