Although the web is excellent for short-term publication, it cannot be considered permanent—institutional priorities change, authors die, and other unforeseen events ultimately mean most web-published material becomes lost or, at best, difficult to access.
An attempt to web publish the Pleistocene records of vertebrates from New Mexico and Trans-Pecos Texas was initiated in 2008. In 2012, as the website matured, the decision to make it available in a more permanent form was made. E-publication appears to be that more permanent form; although future developments in e-book publication technology may require periodic transfer to the latest and greatest, the basic technology should be around for the foreseeable future. Thus the web material, as of August 2012, was presented as a downloadable e-pub. In late 2012, the decision was made to add Arizona to the geographic area covered, and the new web version was deemed mostly stable by late March of 2013. As of early April, the new e-publication based on the web material,Pleistocene Vertebrates of Arizona, New Mexico, and Trans-Pecos Texas, is available. Although a number of readers can handle the EPUB format, the downloadable material is optimized specifically for the Firefox browser via EPUBReader, a free e-book reader add-on (available for download at https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/epubreader/).
Access the e-book. Be patient—depending on the speed of your connection, it may take from less than half a minute to several minutes.
For historic reasons (such as citations to the work), the 2012 web-book, Pleistocene Vertebrates of New Mexico and Trans-Pecos Texas, is still available. The Pleistocene Vertebrates of New Mexico and Trans-Pecos Texas is broken into three separate e-books: Fish, Amphibians, Reptiles, and Birds; Mammals; and Fossil Sites.
Pleistocene Vertebrates of New Mexico and Trans-Pecos Texas - Fish, Amphibians, Reptiles, and Birds may be downloaded by clicking on Link1 (the download may take a bit of time). This will automatically download the file to your computer. If you have the Firefox add-on, it should open automatically; if it does not, locate the file and load it with the "Open File" command.
Pleistocene Vertebrates of New Mexico and Trans-Pecos Texas - Mammals may be downloaded by clicking on the Link2.
Pleistocene Vertebrates of New Mexico and Trans-Pecos Texas - Fossil Sites may be downloaded by clicking on the Link3.
The files will take a while to process.