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Classification of Mammals: Above the Species Level

by Malcolm McKenna

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A revised reference framework for mammalian taxonomy

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A revised reference framework for mammalian taxonomy

Covering living and extinct mammals down to the genus level, this revised volume organizes more than 5,000 genera within 425 families and 46 orders. McKenna and Susan K. Bell present a hierarchical classification shaped by developments in paleontology and by later debates about how mammalian relationships should be systematized. The book’s scope is taxonomic rather than species-by-species: it provides a broad structural map of Mammalia, addressing relationships, distributional occurrence, and genealogy across the group. Its historical context also places the work in conversation with George Gaylord Simpson’s influential 1945 classification and subsequent revisions to the paleontological record.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Mammalogy students and researchers seeking a high-level taxonomic reference
  • Paleontology and evolutionary-systematics readers
  • Natural history collections and academic reference libraries

Themes

Mammalian classificationTaxonomy and systematicsEvolutionary relationshipsLiving and extinct mammalsPaleontological evidence

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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.

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