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Title

The origin of terrestrial vertebrates / [by] I.I. Schmalhausen. Translated from the Russian by Leon Kelso. Edited by Keith Stewart Thomson, with a preface to the English edition by Carl Gans.

Author

Shmalʹgauzen, I. I. (Ivan Ivanovich), 1884-1963.

Publication

New York, Academic Press, 1968.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Kelso, Leon H. (Leon Hugh), 1907-1982
• Thomson, Keith Stewart
• Gans, Carl, 1923-2009

Description

xxi, 314 pages illustrations; 25 cm

Uniform Title

Proiskhozhdenie nazemnykh pozvonochnykh. English

Alternative Title

Proiskhozhdenie nazemnykh pozvonochnykh.

Subject

• Vertebrates
• Paleontology
• Paleontology
• Vertebrates
• Vertebrata (subphylum)
• paleontology
• Gewervelde dieren
• Evolutie

Note

• Translation of Proiskhozhdenie nazemnykh pozvonochnykh.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. xvii-xviii; 296-303.

Contents

Principal modes of evolution in lower vertebrates -- Ecological conditions that allowed the vertebrates to emerge from the aquatic medium into the air : Climatic conditions in the Devonian and Carboniferous ; Reasons for the emergence of fishes into the aerial medium -- The origin of accessory respiratory organs in fishes and amphibia : Lungs ; External gills -- Organization and position of the Brachiopterygii -- The organization and position of the Dipnoi -- The organization of the Crossopterygian fishes and their basic biology -- Structural prerequisites for the emergence of Crossopterygians onto land -- Devonian Stegocephalia—the Ichthyostegidae -- Fundamental processes in the transition from aquatic to terrestrial-aerial life -- The structure of the tetrapod skull and the homology of its elements -- The Stegocephalia of the carboniferous and the adaptive radiations of the first terrestrial vertebrates -- The labyrinthodonts and the evolution of the coastal amphibia -- The origin and evolution of Anuran amphibia -- Lepospondylous stegocephalia and their relationship to the labyrinthodonts : The problem of the position of the Microsauria -- The Microsauria and the origin of the Apoda -- The history of the development and origin of the Urodele amphibia : The development of external gills ; Development of the arterial system ; The seismosensory system ; The olfactory orans, nostrils, and the nasolachrymal duct ; Organs of hearing and the sound transmission apparatus ; The development of the Chondrocranium ; The bony skull ; Development of the vertebral column ; The development of the appendages of Urodele amphibia ; Conclusions on the history of the origin of Urodele amphibia -- The fate of the amphibia in the Mesozoic and the history of the Urodele amphibia -- The embolomerous Stegocephalia and the origin of the reptiles -- Monophyletism versus Polyphyletism in the origin of terrestrial vertebrates : The divergence in skeletal structure ; The respiratory and feeding mechanisms in lower Tetrapoda ; Modifications in the sense organs ; Conclusion -- Phylogenetic relationships among the lower Tetrapoda.

ISBN

• 0126257507
• 9780126257502

LCCN

67031044

OCLC

• ocm00712681
• 712681
• SCSB-309070

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library