After the Dinosaurs : The Age of Mammals /

A fascinating study of the thousands of new animal species that walked in the footsteps of the dinosaurs-and the climate changes that brought them forth. The fascinating group of animals called dinosaurs became extinct some 65 million years ago (except for their feathered descendants). In their plac...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Prothero, Donald R.
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press, 2006.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Paleontology.
Mammals, Fossil.
Cenozoic Geologic Period.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Zoology > Mammals.
NATURE > Animals > Mammals.
Paleontologie > Cenozoïque.
Mammiferes fossiles.
Paleontology > Cenozoic.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Cover; After the Dinosaurs; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; 2. The End of the Dinosaurs?; 3. Brave New World: The Paleocene; 4. Dawn of the Recent: The Eocene; 5. The Icehouse Cometh: The Oligocene; 6. The Savanna Story: The Miocene; 7. The World in Transition: The Pliocene; 8. Ice Time: The Pleistocene; 9. Our Interglacial: The Holocene; Bibliography; Index.

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