Research Catalog

Title

Functional morphology and evolution / Peter Dodson and Philip Gingerich, editors.

Publication

New Haven, Conn. : Kline Geology Laboratory, Yale University, 1993.

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Additional Authors

• Dodson, Peter.
• Gingerich, Philip D.
• Ostrom, John H.

Description

xviii, 478 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

The American journal of science, 0002-9599 ; v. 293-A

Uniform Title

The American journal of science ; v. 293-A.

Subject

• Evolution
• Morphology (Animals)
• Ostrom, John H
• Paleontology

Note

• "A special volume of the American journal of science dedicated to John H. Ostrom"--T. p.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Feeding strategies and metabolism in elephants and sauropod dinosaurs / Edwin H. Colbert -- Ammonite aptychi : how to transform a jaw into an operculum / Adolph Seilacher -- The origin of the tetrapods / Keith Stewart Thomson -- Function and phylogeny in sauropterygian (Diapsida) evolution / Glenn W. Storrs -- The wings of pterosaurs / Kevin Padian and Jeremy M.V. Rayner -- On the rareness of big, fierce animals : speculations about the body sizes, population densities, and geographic ranges of predatory mammals and large, carnivorous dinosaurs / James O. Farlow -- Comparative craniology of the Ceratopsia / Peter Dodson -- Skull of Archaeornithoides from the upper Cretaceous of Mongolia / Andrzej Elzanowski and Peter Wellnhofer -- The evolution of the avian shoulder joint / Farish A. Jenkins -- Braincase structure in the oldest known skull of a therian mammal : implications for mammalian systematics and cranial evolution / James A. Hopson and Guillermo W. Rougier.
• (cont.) Inferring locomotor behavior in Paleogene mammals via eigenshape analysis / Norman MacLeod and Kenneth D. Rose -- Tooth form and diet in ateline and alouattine primates : reflections on the comparative method / Mark R.L. Anthony and Richard F. Kay -- New endocasts of Aegyptopithecus : oldest well-preserved record of the brain in Anthropoidea / Elwyn L. Simons -- "On the merits of adequacy" / Carl Gans -- Tree-based approaches to understanding history : comments on ranks, rules, and the quality of the fossil record / Mark A. Norell -- Turn-over pulses, the Red Queen, and related topics / Elisabeth S. Vrba -- Quantification and comparison of evolutionary rates / Philip D. Gingerich.

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