The rise of reptiles : 320 million years of evolution /

Show other versions (1)

"Over 300 million years ago, an early land vertebrate developed an egg that contained the embryo in an amnion, allowing it to be deposited on land. This moment marked the first step in the fascinating and complex evolutionary journey of the reptiles. In The Rise of Reptiles, paleontologist Hans...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Sues, Hans-Dieter, 1956- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019.
Subjects:
Reptiles > Evolution.
NATURE > Animals > Fish.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Zoology > Ichthyology & Herpetology.
Reptiles > Evolution
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Amniotes and reptiles
  • Parareptilia: a group of their own
  • Basal eureptilia and nonsaurian diapsida: early evolution of modern reptiles
  • Testudinata: turtles and their stem-taxa
  • Sauropterygia, ichthyosauromorpha, and related reptiles: the early mesozoic invasion of the sea
  • Lepidosauromorpha: tuatara, lizards, snakes, and their relatives
  • Archosauromorpha: the ruling reptiles and their relatives
  • Pseudosuchia: crocodile-line reptiles
  • Avemetatarsalia: bird-line reptiles
  • Dinosauria: saurischia
  • Dinosauria: ornithischia
  • A brief history of reptiles
  • The future of reptiles.

Similar Items