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Title

Colbert's evolution of the vertebrate : a history of the backboned animals through time / Edwin H. Colbert, Michael Morales, Eli C. Minkoff.

Author

Colbert, Edwin H. (Edwin Harris), 1905-2001.

Publication

New York : Wiley, [2001], ©2001.

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Additional Authors

• Minkoff, Eli C.
• Morales, Michael.
• Colbert, Edwin H. (Edwin Harris), 1905-2001.

Description

xvi, 560 pages : illustrations; 26 cm

Subjects

• Vertebrates, Fossil
• Vertebrates > Evolution
• Vertebrates > Phylogeny

Note

• Rev. ed. of: Evolution of the vertebrates / Edwin H. Colbert. 4th ed. 1991.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 521-532) and index.

Contents

• 1. Introduction -- 2. Jawless Vertebrates -- 3. Acanthodians and Placoderms -- 4. Sharklike Fishes -- 5. Bony Fishes -- 6. Lobe-Fin Fishes and the Transition to Land -- 7. Early Paleozoic Faunas -- 8. Amphibians -- 9. The Advent of Reptiles -- 10. Late Paleozoic Faunas -- 11. Lepidosaurs -- 12. Aquatic Reptiles -- 13. Early Ruling Reptiles -- 14. Triumph of the Dinosaurs -- 15. Aerial Reptiles -- 16. Birds -- 17. Years of the Dinosaurs -- 18. Mammal-Like Reptiles -- 19. Beginning of the Mammals -- 20. Marsupials -- 21. Introduction to the Placentals -- 22. Early Placental Diversification -- 23. Primates and Their Kin -- 24. Rodents and Rabbits -- 25. Creodonts and Carnivores -- 26. Whales and Dolphins -- 27. Primitive Ungulates -- 28. Artiodactyls -- 29. South American Ungulates -- 30. Perissodactyls -- 31. Elephants and Their Kin -- 32. Cenozoic Faunas -- A Classification of the Phylum Chordata --
• Key to Abbreviations of Bone Names Used in Illustrations.

ISBN

0471384615 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

2001024230

OCLC

• 46504406
• ocm46504406
• SCSB-4232019

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries