The Africa-South America Connection.

Abstract

List of contributors 1. The history of the problem 2. Palaeogeography of the opening South Atlantic 3. Palaeoclimatic history of the opening South Atlantic 4. Aspects of aroid geography 5. African-American relationships within the Acrididae (Insecta, Orthroptera) 6. Grube Messel and Africa-South America faunal connections 7. Fossil amphibians and reptiles and the Africa-South America connection 8. Origin of the New World monkeys 9. The strange rodents of Africa and South America 10. Conclusions Appendix: The history of the problem Index