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Vertebrate Palaeontology

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Benton, Michael J.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2014.
Colección:New York Academy of Sciences Ser.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Intro -- VERTEBRATE PALAEONTOLOGY -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- List of Boxes -- About the companion website -- Chapter 1 Vertebrates Originate -- INTRODUCTION -- 1.1 SEA SQUIRTS AND THE LANCELET -- 1.1.1 Urochordata: sea squirts -- 1.1.2 Cephalochordata: amphioxus -- 1.2 AMBULACRARIA: ECHINODERMS AND HEMICHORDATES -- 1.3 DEUTEROSTOME RELATIONSHIPS -- 1.3.1 Embryology and the position of the anus -- 1.3.2 Animal phylogenomics -- 1.4 CHORDATE ORIGINS -- 1.4.1 Diverse early chordates -- 1.4.2 Vetulicolians and yunnanozoons -- 1.4.3 Development and vertebrate origins 
505 8 |a 1.5 VERTEBRATES AND THE HEAD -- 1.6 FURTHER READING -- 1.7 REFERENCES -- Chapter 2 How to Study Fossil Vertebrates -- INTRODUCTION -- 2.1 DIGGING UP BONES -- 2.1.1 Collecting fossil vertebrates -- 2.1.2 Preparation and conservation of bones -- 2.1.3 Display and study -- 2.2 PUBLICATION AND PROFESSIONALISM -- 2.2.1 The scientific literature -- 2.2.2 How to write a scientific paper -- 2.2.3 Careers in vertebrate palaeontology -- 2.3 GEOLOGY AND FOSSIL VERTEBRATES -- 2.3.1 Taphonomy -- 2.3.2 Continental drift -- 2.3.3 Ancient climates -- 2.4 BIOLOGY AND FOSSIL VERTEBRATES 
505 8 |a 2.4.1 Functional morphology -- 2.4.2 Palaeoecology -- 2.5 DISCOVERING PHYLOGENY -- 2.5.1 Cladistic analysis of morphological characters -- 2.5.2 Molecular phylogeny reconstruction -- 2.6 THE QUALITY OF THE FOSSIL RECORD -- 2.7 MACROEVOLUTION -- 2.8 FURTHER READING -- 2.9 REFERENCES -- Chapter 3 Early Palaeozoic Fishes -- INTRODUCTION -- 3.1 CAMBRIAN VERTEBRATES -- 3.2 VERTEBRATE HARD TISSUES -- 3.3 THE JAWLESS FISHES -- 3.3.1 Living jawless fishes -- 3.3.2 Conodonta -- 3.3.3 Ordovician jawless fishes -- 3.3.4 Heterostraci -- 3.3.5 Anaspida and Thelodonti -- 3.3.6 Osteostraci and relatives 
505 8 |a 3.4 ORIGIN OF JAWS AND GNATHOSTOME RELATIONSHIPS -- 3.4.1 Jaws -- 3.4.2 Jaw attachments and gnathostome relationships -- 3.5 PLACODERMS: ARMOUR-PLATED MONSTERS -- 3.5.1 Arthrodira -- 3.5.2 Placoderm jaws and teeth -- 3.5.3 Diverse placoderms -- 3.6 CHONDRICHTHYES: THE FIRST SHARKS -- 3.7 ACANTHODIANS: THE 'SPINY SKINS' -- 3.8 DEVONIAN ENVIRONMENTS -- 3.8.1 Siluro-Devonian faunal provinces -- 3.8.2 Siluro-Devonian environments -- 3.9 OSTEICHTHYES: THE BONY FISHES -- 3.9.1 Devonian actinopterygians -- 3.9.2 Dipnomorpha: the lungfishes -- 3.9.3 Actinistia: the coelacanths 
505 8 |a 3.9.4 Early sarcopterygians: origins of Tetrapodomorpha -- 3.10 EARLY FISH EVOLUTION AND MASS EXTINCTION -- 3.10.1 Diversification of early vertebrates -- 3.10.2 The Late Devonian mass extinctions -- 3.11 FURTHER READING -- 3.12 REFERENCES -- Chapter 4 Early Tetrapods and Amphibians -- INTRODUCTION -- 4.1 PROBLEMS OF LIFE ON LAND -- 4.1.1 Support -- 4.1.2 Locomotion -- 4.1.3 Feeding and respiration -- 4.1.4 Sensory systems and water balance -- 4.1.5 Reproduction -- 4.2 DEVONIAN TETRAPODS -- 4.2.1 Anatomy -- 4.2.2 How many fingers and toes? -- 4.2.3 Modes of life of the first tetrapods 
500 |a 4.3 THE CARBONIFEROUS WORLD 
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