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new book, but not about dinosaurs--keep reading anyway



OK, I know that the following isn't about dinosaurs, but let's all try
to be liberal and broad-minded for a moment.  I just got a really NEAT
book in the mail: K.M. Stewart and K.L. Seymour (editors), 1996.
Palaeoecology and Palaeoenvironments of Late Cenozoic Mammals:
Tributes to the Career of C.S. (Rufus) Churcher.  University of
Toronto Press, 675 pp.  There are several interesting papers in this
(including a couple things by your humble correspondent, who dabbles
in Pleistocene stuff by virtue of living in an area where there are
more mastodont specimens than living Democrats).  A few that I think
will especially interest this discussion group:

W.A. Akersten, Diversity bottlenecks, oddball survivors, and negative
   keys

R.L. Carroll, Pleistocene and Holocene vertebrates as models for the
   study of evolutionary patterns

R.L. Richards et al., Distribution and size variation in North
   American short-faced bears, Arctodus simus

H.N. Bryant, Force generation by the jaw adductor musculature at
   different gapes in the Pleistocene sabretoothed felid Smilodon

R.W. Graham et al. (I'm one of the et als.), Tracking Ice Age felids:
    identification of tracks of Panthera atrox from a cave in southern
    Missouri, U.S.A.

R.S. Laub, The masticatory apparatus of the American mastodon (Mammut
     americanum)

ISBN: 0-8020-07287

Price:  $75 (I'm not sure if this is Canadian or American)

OK, OK, because you all want to know about my other paper in this
volume, well, since you twisted my arm:

J.O. Farlow and J. McClain, A spectacular specimen of the elk-moose
     Cervalces scotti from Noble County, Indiana, U.S.A.