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010 _a 2013006698
020 _a9780231158923 (cloth : acidfree paper)
020 _a9780231158930 (paperback : acid-free paper)
020 _z9780231536905 (ebook)
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_erda
_cDLC
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050 0 0 _aQE719.8
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082 0 0 _a560
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100 1 _aProthero, Donald R.,
245 1 0 _aBringing fossils to life :
_ban introduction to paleobiology /
_cDonald R. Prothero.
250 _aThird Edition.
264 1 _aNew York :
_bColumbia University Press,
_c[2013]
300 _axiii, 671 pages :
_billustrations, maps ;
_c29 cm
336 _atext
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_2rdacarrier
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 619-655) and index.
505 0 _aTo 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.
650 0 _aPaleobiology
_vTextbooks.
650 0 _aFossils
_vTextbooks.
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949 _aQE719.8 .P76 2013
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