Bringing fossils to life : an introduction to paleobiology / Donald R. Prothero.
Publisher: New York : Columbia University Press, [2013]Edition: Third EditionDescription: xiii, 671 pages : illustrations, maps ; 29 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
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- 9780231158923 (cloth : acidfree paper)
- 9780231158930 (paperback : acid-free paper)
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- QE719.8 .P76 2013
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 619-655) and index.
To the Student: Why Study Fossils? -- Part I. The Fossil Record : A Window on the Past -- The Fossil Record -- Variation in Fossils -- Species and Speciation -- Systematics -- Evolution -- Extinction -- Functional Morphology -- Paleoecology -- Biogeography -- Biostratigraphy -- Part II. Life of the Past and Present -- Life's Origins and Early Evolution -- Micropaleontology : Fossil Protistans -- Colonial Life : Sponges, Archaeocyathans, and Cnidarians -- The Lophophorates Brachiopods and Bryozoans -- Jointed Limbs -- Kingdom of the Seashell : The Molluscs -- Spiny Skins : The Echinoderms -- Dry Bones : Vertebrates and their Relatives -- Fossilized Behavior : Trace Fossils -- Traces of Earth's Green Mantle : Paleobotany -- Glossary.
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