Colbert's evolution of the vertebrates : a history of the backboned animals through time / Edwin H. Colbert, Michael Morales, Eli C. Minkoff
Imprint
New York : Wiley-Liss, c2001
Edition
5th ed
Descript
xvi, 560 p. : ill. ; 26 cm
CONTENT
1. Introduction -- 2. Jawless vertebrates -- 3. Acanthodians and placoderms -- 4. Sharklike fishes -- 5. Bony fishes -- 6. Lobe-fin fishes and the transition to land -- 7. Early paleozoic faunas -- 8. Amphibians -- 9. The advent of reptiles -- 10. Late paleozoic faunas -- 11. Lepidosaurs -- 12. Aquatic reptiles -- 13. Early ruling reptiles -- 14. Triumph of the dinosaurs -- 15. Aerial reptiles -- 16. Birds -- 17. Years of the dinosaurs -- 18. Mammal-like reptiles -- 19. Beginning of the mammals -- 20. Marsupials -- 21. Introduction to the placentals -- 22. Early placental diversification -- 23. Primates and their Kin -- 24. Rodents and rabbits -- 25. Creodonts and carnivores -- 26. Whales and dolphins -- 27. Primitive ungulates -- 28. Artiodactyls -- 29. South American ungulates -- 30. Perissodactyls -- 31. Elephants and their kin -- 32. Genozoic faunas