TY - JOUR
AU1 - HOOKER, J. J.
AB - British Tertiary mammals are best represented in the Eocene and earliest Oligocene epochs. Additional occurrences are from the Miocene and Late Pliocene. The Eocene is marked by the occurrence of various extinct orders as well as the appearances of some of the earliest and must primitive artiodactyls and perissodactyls. The appearances in the Early Eocene and Early Oligocene represent major dispersal events, reflecting penecontemporaneous palaeogeographic changes. In the intervening timespan Britain was part of an European island, sharing its endemic terrestrial fauna. From the late Middle Eocene to earliest Oligocene, the British record is detailed enough to trace successive changes in the patterns of diversity and faunal turnover, which may relate to changing climate as well as to the dispersal events. It has been shown that changes in patterns of ecological diversity through the Eocene and earliest Oligocene match vegetational changes judged from plant fossils. They suggest a gradual transition from closed forest in the Early Eocene to a more open environment with reedmarsh and wooded patches by the end of the epoch.
TI - British mammals in the Tertiary period
JF - Biological Journal of the Linnean Society
DO - 10.1111/j.1095-8312.1989.tb01558.x
DA - 1989-09-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/british-mammals-in-the-tertiary-period-MD9pD1aVpE
SP - 9
VL - 38
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -