Section I: Non-primate Mammals
1. Earliest Evidence of Deltatheroida (Mammalia:
Metatheria) from the Early Cretaceous of North America ..... 3
Brian M. Davis, Richard L. Cifelli, and
Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska
2. Evolution of Hind Limb Proportions in Kangaroos
(Marsupialia: Macropodoidea) .............................. 25
Benjamin P. Kear, Michael S. Y. Lee, Wayne R. Gerdtz,
and Timothy F. Flannery
3. Changing Views in Paleontology: The Story of a Giant
(Megatherium, Xenarthra) .................................. 37
Christine Argot
4. Evolutionary Morphology of the Tenrecoidea (Mammalia)
Forelimb Skeleton ......................................... 51
Justine A. Salton and Eric J. Sargis
5. Postcranial Morphology of Apheliscus and Haplomylus
(Condylarthra, Apheliscidae): Evidence for a Paleocene
Holarctic Origin of Macroscelidea ......................... 73
Tonya A. Penkrot, Shawn P. Zack, Kenneth D. Rose,
and Jonathan I. Bloch
6. Postcranial Skeleton of the Upper Paleocene
(Itaboraian) "Condylarthra" (Mammalia) of Itaboraf
Basin, Brazil ............................................ 107
Lilian P. Bergqvist
7. Postcranial Osteology of Mammals from Salla, Bolivia
(Late Oligocene): Form, Function, and Phylogenetic
Implications ............................................. 135
Bruce J. Shockey and Federico Anaya
8. Evolution of the Proximal Third Phalanx in
Oligocene-Miocene Equids, and the Utility of Phalangeal
Indices in Phylogeny Reconstruction ...................... 159
Jay A. O'Sullivan
9. Adaptive Zones and the Pinniped Ankle:
A Three-Dimensional Quantitative Analysis of Carnivoran
Tarsal Evolution ......................................... 167
P. David Polly
Section II: Primates
10. The Biogeographic Origins of Primates and Euprimates:
East, West, North, or South of Eden? .................... 199
Mary T. Silcox
11. Evaluating the Mitten-Gliding Hypothesis for
Paromomyidae and Micromomyidae (Mammalia,
"Plesiadapiformes") Using Comparative Functional
Morphology of New Paleogene Skeletons ................... 233
Doug M. Boyer and Jonathan I. Bloch
12. Morphological Diversity in the Skulls of Large
Adapines (Primates, Adapiformes)and Its Systematic
Implications ............................................ 285
Marc Godinot and Sebastien Couette
13. Primate Tibiae from the Middle Eocene Shanghuang
Fissure-Fillings of Eastern China ....................... 315
Marian Dagosto, Daniel L. Gebo, Xijun Ni, Tao Qi,
and K. Christopher Beard
14. Rooneyia, Postorbital Closure, and the Beginnings of
the Age of Anthropoidea ................................. 325
Alfred L. Rosenberger, Russell Hogg, and Sai Man Wong
15. Epitensoric Position of the Chorda Tympani in
Anthropoidea: a New Synapomorphic Character, with
Remarks on the Fissura Glaseri in Primates .............. 347
Wolfgang Maier
16. Evolutionary Morphology of the Guenon Postcranium and
Its Taxonomic Implications .............................. 361
Eric J. Sargis, Carl J. Terranova, and Daniel L. Gebo
17. Analysis of Selected Hominoid Joint Surfaces Using
Laser Scanning and Geometric Morphometries:
A Preliminary Report .................................... 373
William E. H. Harcourt-Smith, Melissa Tallman,
Stephen R. Frost, David F. Wiley, F. James Rohlf and
Eric Delson
18. Comparative Primate Bone Microstructure: Records of
Life History, Function, andPhylogeny .................... 385
Johanna Warshaw
Taxonomic Index
Subject Index
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