TY  - BOOK
AU  - Prothero,Donald R.
TI  - Bringing fossils to life: an introduction to paleobiology 
SN  - 9780231158923 (cloth : acidfree paper)
AV  - QE719.8 .P76 2013
U1  - 560 23
PY  - 2013///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Columbia University Press
KW  - Paleobiology
KW  - Textbooks
KW  - Fossils
N1  - 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
ER  -