The evolution of artiodactyls / edited by Donald R. Prothero and Scott E. Foss

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Contents: Molecular phylogeny of terrestrial artiodactyls : conflicts and resolution / Jonathan D. Marcot -- Phylogenetic relationships of cetaceans to terrestrial artiodactyls / Jonathan H. Geisler ... [et al.] -- The earliest artiodactyls : Diacodexidae, Dichobunidae, Homacodontidae, Leptochoeridae, and Raoellidae / Jessica M. Theodor, Jörg Erfurt and Grégoire Métais -- Endemic European artiodactyls : Cebochoeridae, Choeropotamidae, Mixtotheriidae, Cainotheriidae, Anoplotheriidae, Xiphodontidae and Amphimerycidae / Jörg Erfurt and Grégoire Métais -- Family Helohyidae / Scott E. Foss -- Family Anthracotheriidae / Fabrice Lihoreau and Stéphane Ducrocq -- Family Hippopotamidae / Jean-Renaud Boisserie -- Family Entelodontidae / Scott E. Foss -- Superfamily Suoidea / John M. Harris and Liu Li-Ping -- Family Agriochoeridae / Joshua A. Ludtke -- Family Merycoidodontidae / Margaret Skeels Stevens and James Bowie Stevens -- Family Protoceratidae / Donald R. Prothero and Joshua A. Ludtke -- Family Camelidae / James G. Honey -- Basal ruminants / Grégoire Métais and Inessa Vislobokova -- Family Tragulidae / Gertrude E. Rössner -- Family Moschidae / Donald R. Prothero -- Family Antilocapridae / Edward Byrd Davis -- Family Palaeomerycidae / Donald R. Prothero and Matthew R. Liter -- Family Cervidae / Colin P. Groves -- Family Giraffidae / Nikos Solounias -- Family Bovidae / Nikos Solounias -- Artiodactyl paleoecology and evolutionary trends / Christine M. Janis