Classification of Mammals: Above the Species Level

by Malcolm C. McKenna and Susan K. Bell

Book Overview

Embracing more than 5,000 genera, distributed in 425 families and 46 orders, Malcolm C. McKenna and Susan K. Bell's Classification of Mammals is the most comprehensive work to date on the systematics, relationships, and occurrences of all mammal taxa, living and extinct, down through the rank of genus.

Since George Gaylord Simpson's 1945 classification, the paleontological record has been recalibrated, and the intervening years have...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231110138
• ISBN13: 9780231110136
• Release Date: February 2000
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 640 Pages
• Weight: 3.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 8.5" x 11.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher