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Author:

Cleveland, Claire

Title:

Oreodont adaptation, evolution, and extinction in Oligocene-Miocene North America

Graduate Program:

Geosciences (PHD)

Keywords:

oreodonts
grassland expansion
North America
Cenozoic
Oligocene
Miocene
morphology
ecometrics
browsers
grazers
hypsodonty
cursoriality
Principal Component Analysis
Procrustes Analysis
evolutionary paleoecology
Artiodactyls
Merycoidodonts
Merycoidodontidae
Merycoidodontinae
evolution
ecology
paleobiology
trilateration
3D models
adaptation
extinction
extirpation
flora
grass
mammals
Central High Plains
High Plains
climate
seasonality
deciduous
evergreen
frost

File:

Download C_Cleveland_Dissertation_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Timothy Bralower, Major Field Member
Mark Patzkowsky, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Sarah Ivory, Major Field Member
Erica Smithwick, Outside Unit & Field Member
Russell Graham, Major Field Member & Dissertation Advisor
Mark Patzkowsky, Program Head/Chair