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Classification of Mammals
-- Jean-Louis Hartenberger, Nature
Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level
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 seen much debate and progress concerning the theoretical underpinnings of systematization. McKenna inherited the project from Simpson and, with Bell, has constructed a completely updated hierarchical system that reflects the genealogy of Mammalia.
Roots of Malcolm Carnegie McKenna
Malcolm Carnegie McKenna (1930- ) was born into an illustrious heritage of early Americans who arrived in and helped settle Pennsylvania before the American Revolution. One ancestral family, the DeHavens, owned Gulph Mills which was Washington's headquarters Valley Forge. A number of Malcolm's ancestors were involved with the iron and, later, steel founding industry and were closely associated with Andrew Carnegie. Malcolm's father, Donald Carnegie McKenna, helped found Claremont McKenna College in California. It is one of the Claremont Colleges. McKenna descendants live in California and New York.
Mammal Phylogeny
The roots of this book and its sister volume, Mammal Phylogeny: Placentals, go back to discussions and plans, shelved for a while, between F. S. Szalay and W. P. Luckett during the international and multidisciplinary symposium on rodent evolution sponsored by NATO, July 2-6, 1984, in Paris. That conference, orga nized by W. P. Luckett and J. -L. Hartenberger, the proceedings of which were published in 1985, proved an inspiring experience to all of the participants, as this was repeatedly expressed both during and after the meetings. In addition to issues relating to rodents, general theoretical topics pertaining to the evolutionary biol ogy and systematics of other groups of mammals regularl...
Two New Oligocene Desmostylians and a Discussion of Tethytherian Systematics
A new genus, comprising two new species of desmostylians, is described from marine Oligocene deposits of the Pacific Northwest. Behemotops proteus, new genus, new species, is based on an immature mandibular ramus and apparently associated skeletal fragments from the middle or (more likely) upper Oligocene lower part of the Pysht Formation of Clallam County, Washington. A related new species, Behemotops emlongi, is founded on a mandibular ramus of an old individual and a mandibular fragment with canine tusk from the uppermost Oligocene (early Arikareean equivalent) Yaquina Formation of Lincoln County, Oregon. The two new species are the most primitive known desmostylians and compare favorably...
