Item #178611 Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution. Robert L. Carroll.
Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution
Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution

Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution

New York, New York: W.H. Freeman and Company, 1988. Hardcover. Black boards with stamped lettering on front, silver spine lettering, silver dust jacket with bw illustration and black lettering, xiv 698 pp, profusely illustrated in bw throughout. VG+/VG+. Item #178611
ISBN: 9780716718222

Chapters include: Fossils and relationships -- The origin of vertebrates -- The diversity of jawless fish -- Primitive jawed fish -- Sharks and other cartilaginous fish -- Acanthodians and primitive bony fish -- Advanced bony fish : the Telecosts -- Sarcopterygian fish -- The conquest of land and the radiation of amphibians -- Primitive amniotes and turtles -- Primitive diapsids and lepidosaurs -- Mesozoic marine reptiles -- Primitive archosauromorphs and crocodiles -- The anatomy and relationships of dinosaurs -- The biology and extinction of dinosaurs -- Flight -- The origin of mammals -- Primitive Mesozoic mammals and monotremes -- Primitive Therian mammals and marsupials -- The radiation of placental mammals -- Ungulates, edentates, and whales -- Evolution -- Appendix: Classification of vertebrates. Includes bibliographical references and index.

OCLC: 14967288

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