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Northern Waif Primates and Rodents

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The Great American Biotic Interchange

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Whatever the origins of the members of the basic Paleocene and Eocene stocks of South American mammals (Simpson, 1950, pp. 368–373; 1978, p. 321; Patterson and Pascual, 1972, pp. 260–276; McKenna, 1981, pp. 56–70; Pascual et al, Chapter 8, this volume; Cifelli, Chapter 9, this volume), no new mammal types are known from the South American Eocene that would suggest any invasion of the continent from abroad. In the Deseadan, however, two orders appear for the first time in South America, the primates and the rodents, with no known possible South American ancestors. There is essentially universal agreement that the ancestors of the earliest known South American representatives of these orders reached that continent from abroad. Both orders (but not the suborders found in South America] are well known from the Paleocene and Eocene of the northern continents.

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Wood, A.E. (1985). Northern Waif Primates and Rodents. In: Stehli, F.G., Webb, S.D. (eds) The Great American Biotic Interchange. Topics in Geobiology, vol 4. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-9181-4_10

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