Horns, tusks, and flippers: the evolution of hoofed mammals

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Contents:Preface and Acknowledgments1. Introduction American savanna Names and dates Hoofed mammals Uinta beasts and the Cope-Marsh wars The lost world2. Cloven hooves The kingdom of cloven hooves Gut reactions Bunny Phosphate and fossils Pseudopigs Sui generis Nebraska man and javelinas The river horse3. Tylopods Camels without humps Ships of the desert tooth4. Where the deer and the antelope play Graveyard of the Amazons Horns and antlers Mouse The forest donkey The camelopard Deer perfume All-American-but not an antelope Deer to us all Abbe David and his deer5. Hollow horns A world of bovids Bovines Auroachs and wisent Where the buffalo roam Cattle call Diving bucks Bright eyes Mountain monarchs6. A whale's tale Dr. Koch's sea serpent Walking whales? Andrew's giant bear The pedigree of Leviathan Life of Leviathan So long, and thanks for all the fish Moby Dick, Flipper, and their kin Filter-feeding monsters Save the whales!7. Out of Africa The tethytheres Mermaids The feeble folk8. The origin on Jumbo Giants in the earth Early tuskers The Great Missourium Shovel-tuskers and gomphotheres Elephant grinders Wooly wanderers The mystery of the missing mammoths9. Kingdom of ivory Behold the behemoth Behemoth biology The sisterhood God and slave Blood and ivory10. A horse of a different color (and shape) The origin of perissodactyls The hyrax beast Cuvier's ancient beast Halfway horses Browsing anchitheres Grazing horses The hipparion controversy11. Equus One-toed horses Stripes do not a zebra make Wild asses Wild and domesticated horses12. Thunder beasts The legend of the Thunder Beasts Bone rush Osborn, Asia, and orthogenesis The biology of brontotheres13. Proboscises and claws Dragon's teeth Hall of the mountain cow Chalicotheres don't obey Cuvier's Law Just what are chalicotheres? Moropomorphs14. Rhinoceroses without horns Ancient Dacians and Siberian mummies American rhinos The amphibious amynodonts Running rhinos and rhino giants True rhinoceroses Miocene invasions Rhinoceros Pompeii Hairy rhinos and giant unicorns15. Thundering to extinction Unicorn, monoceros, and rhinoceros Black and white One-horned rhinos Horns of doom Epilogue References Index