Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution

Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution

Autor: Robert L. Carroll

Año: 1978

Contenido

1.       Fossils and  relationship

2.       The origin of Vertebrates

3.       The diversity of Jawless Fish

4.       Primitive Jawed fish

5.       Sharks and other cartilaginous fish

6.       Acanthodians and primitive Bony Fish

7.       Advanced Bony fish: The Teleosts

8.       Sarcopterygian Fish

9.       The conquest of Land and the radiation of amphibians

10.   Primitive amniotes and turtles

11.   Primitive diapsids and lepidosaurs

12.   Mesozoic marine reptiles

13.   Primitive archosauromorphs and crocodiles

14.   The anatomy and relationship of dinosaurs

15.   The biology and extinction of dinosaurs

16.   Flight

17.   The origin of Mammmals

18.   Primitive Mesozoic Mammals and Monotresmes

19.   Primitive therian Mammals an Marsupials

20.   The Radiation of placental Mammals

21.   Ungulates, Edentates, and Whales

22.   Evolution

23.   Classification of vertebrates