- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- One Tectonics and Geomorphology of Africa during the Phanerozoic
- Two Chronology of Paleogene Mammal Localities
- Three Chronology of Neogene Mammal Localities
- Four Global and African Regional Climate during the Cenozoic
- Five A Review of the Cenozoic Vegetation History of Africa
- Six Marsupialia
- Seven Ptolemaiida
- Eight Macroscelidea
- Nine Tenrecoidea
- Ten Tubulidentata
- Eleven Bibymalagasia (Mammalia <i>Incertae Sedis</i>)
- Twelve Embrithopoda
- Thirteen Hyracoidea
- Fourteen Sirenia
- Fifteen Proboscidea
- Sixteen Paleogene “Insectivores”
- Seventeen Rodentia
- Eighteen Lagomorpha
- Nineteen Paleogene Prosimians
- Twenty Later Tertiary Lorisiformes
- Twenty-One Subfossil Lemurs of Madagascar
- Twenty-Two Paleogene Anthropoids
- Twenty-Three Cercopithecoidea
- Twenty-Four Dendropithecoidea, Proconsuloidea, and Hominoidea
- Twenty-Five Hominini
- Twenty-Six Creodonta
- Twenty-Seven Prionogalidae (Mammalia <i>Incertae Sedis</i>)
- Twenty-Eight Primitive Ungulates (“Condylarthra” and Stem Paenungulata)
- Twenty-Nine Neogene Insectivora
- Thirty Chiroptera
- Thirty-One Pholidota
- Thirty-Two Carnivora
- Thirty-Three Chalicotheriidae
- Thirty-Four Rhinocerotidae
- Thirty-Five Equidae
- Thirty-Six Tragulidae
- Thirty-Seven Pecora Incertae Sedis
- Thirty-Eight Bovidae
- Thirty-Nine Giraffoidea
- Forty Cervidae
- Forty-One Camelidae
- Forty-Two Suoidea
- Forty-Three Anthracotheriidae
- Forty-Four Hippopotamidae
- Forty-Five Cetacea
- Forty-Six Systematics of Endemic African Mammals
- Forty-Seven Mammal Species Richness in Africa
- Forty-Eight Stable Carbon and Oxygen Isotopes in East African Mammals: Modern and Fossil
- Index
Paleogene “Insectivores”
Paleogene “Insectivores”
- Chapter:
- (p.252) (p.253) Sixteen Paleogene “Insectivores”
- Source:
- Cenozoic Mammals of Africa
- Author(s):
Erik R. Seiffert
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
Paleogene Afro-Arabian placental mammals of “insectivoran” grade — simply known as Paleogene African “insectivores” — have thus far been placed either in endemic African genera (Chambilestes, Eochrysochloris, Garatherium, Jawharia, Todralestes, Widanelfarasia) or in genera that have also been documented in the fossil records of Europe (Aboletylestes, Afrodon) and North America (Cimolestes, Palaeoryctes). Whereas Paleogene insectivores from northern continents are increasingly known from well-preserved cranial remains, the African assemblage is comparatively very limited. These scanty records nevertheless bear directly (though not yet conclusively) on some central outstanding issues in early placental mammalian evolution, such as the time and place of origin of the enigmatic Afrosoricida (the afrotherian clade containing tenrecs [Tenrecoidea] and golden moles [Chrysochloridae]) and the nature of Afro-Arabia's biogeographic isolation through the Late Cretaceous and early Cenozoic. Interpretation and classification of the Paleogene “insectivores” from Africa has become extremely problematic since the recognition of the endemic Afro-Arabian clade Afrotheria. This chapter describes the systematic paleontology of Paleogene “insectivores.”.
Keywords: Paleogene, insectivores, paleontology, placental mammals, evolution, Afrosoricida, Afrotheria, Cenozoic, Africa, Late Cretaceous
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- One Tectonics and Geomorphology of Africa during the Phanerozoic
- Two Chronology of Paleogene Mammal Localities
- Three Chronology of Neogene Mammal Localities
- Four Global and African Regional Climate during the Cenozoic
- Five A Review of the Cenozoic Vegetation History of Africa
- Six Marsupialia
- Seven Ptolemaiida
- Eight Macroscelidea
- Nine Tenrecoidea
- Ten Tubulidentata
- Eleven Bibymalagasia (Mammalia <i>Incertae Sedis</i>)
- Twelve Embrithopoda
- Thirteen Hyracoidea
- Fourteen Sirenia
- Fifteen Proboscidea
- Sixteen Paleogene “Insectivores”
- Seventeen Rodentia
- Eighteen Lagomorpha
- Nineteen Paleogene Prosimians
- Twenty Later Tertiary Lorisiformes
- Twenty-One Subfossil Lemurs of Madagascar
- Twenty-Two Paleogene Anthropoids
- Twenty-Three Cercopithecoidea
- Twenty-Four Dendropithecoidea, Proconsuloidea, and Hominoidea
- Twenty-Five Hominini
- Twenty-Six Creodonta
- Twenty-Seven Prionogalidae (Mammalia <i>Incertae Sedis</i>)
- Twenty-Eight Primitive Ungulates (“Condylarthra” and Stem Paenungulata)
- Twenty-Nine Neogene Insectivora
- Thirty Chiroptera
- Thirty-One Pholidota
- Thirty-Two Carnivora
- Thirty-Three Chalicotheriidae
- Thirty-Four Rhinocerotidae
- Thirty-Five Equidae
- Thirty-Six Tragulidae
- Thirty-Seven Pecora Incertae Sedis
- Thirty-Eight Bovidae
- Thirty-Nine Giraffoidea
- Forty Cervidae
- Forty-One Camelidae
- Forty-Two Suoidea
- Forty-Three Anthracotheriidae
- Forty-Four Hippopotamidae
- Forty-Five Cetacea
- Forty-Six Systematics of Endemic African Mammals
- Forty-Seven Mammal Species Richness in Africa
- Forty-Eight Stable Carbon and Oxygen Isotopes in East African Mammals: Modern and Fossil
- Index
