Vertebrate palaeontology /
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| Lenguaje: | Español |
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Oxford :
Blakwell,
2010.
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| Edición: | 3rd ed. |
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1 Vetebrate origin
- 1.1 Sea squirts and the lancelet
- 1.2 Phylum Hemichordata: pterobranchs
- 1.3 Deuterostome relationships
- 1.4 Chordate origins
- 1.5 Vertebrates and the head
- 1.6 Further reading
- 2 How to study fossil vertebrates
- 2.1 Diging up bones
- 2.2 Geology and fossil vertebrates
- 2.3 Biology and fossil vertebrates
- 2.4 Discovering phylogeny
- 2.5 The quality of the fossil record
- 2.6 Further reading
- 3 Early palaeozoic fishes
- 3.1 Cambrian vertebrates
- 3.2 Vertebrate hard tissues - 3.3 The jawless fishes
- 3.4 Origin of jaws and gnathostome relationships
- 3.5 Placodermi: armour-plated monsters
- 3.6 Chondrichthyes: the first sharks
- 3.7 Acanthodii: the 'spiny skins'
- 3.8 Devonian environments
- 3.9 Osteichthyes: the bony fishes
- 3.10 Early fish evolution and mass extintion
- 3.11 Further reading
- 4 The early tetrapods and amphibians
- 4.1 Problems of life land
- 4.2 Devonian tetrapods
- 4.3 The Carboniferous world
- 4.4 Diversity of Carboniferous tetrapods
- 4.5 Temnospondyls and reptiliomorphs after the Carboniferous
- 4.6 Evolution of modern amphibians
- 4.7 Further reading
- 5 The evolution of early amniotes
- 5.1 Hylonomus and Paleothyris- biology of the first amniotes
- 5.2 Amniote evolution
- 5.3 The Permian world
- 5.4 The early evolution
- 5.5 Basal synapsid evolution
- 5.6 Mass extintion
- 5.7 Further reading
- 6 Tetrapods of the triassic
- 6.1 The Triassic scene
- 6.2 Evolution of the archosauromor
- 6.3 In Triassic seas
- 6.4 The origin of the dinosaurs
- 6.5 Further reading
- 7 The evolution of fishes after the devonian
- 7.1 The aerly sharks and chimaeras
- 7.2 Post-Paleozoic chondrichthyan radiation
- 7.3 The early bony fishes
- 7.4 Radiation of the teleosts
- 7.5 Post-Devonian evolution of fishes
- 7.6 Further reading
- 8 The age of dinosaurs
- 8.1 Biology of Plateosaurus
- 8.2 The Jurassic and Cretaceous world
- 8.3 The diversity of saurischian dinosaurs
- 8.4 The diversity of ornithischian dinosaurs
- 8.5 Were the dinosaurs warm-blooded or not?
- 8.6 Pterosauria
- 8.7 Testudines: the turtles
- 8.8 Crocodylia
- 8.9 Lepidosauria
- 8.10 The great sea dragons
- 8.11 Diversification of Jurassic-Cretaceous reptiles
- 8.12 The KT event
- 8.13 Further reading
- 9 The birds
- 9.1 Archaeopteryx
- 9.2 The origin of the bird flight
- 9.3 Cretaceous birds, with and without teeth
- 9.4 The radiation of modern birds
- 9.5 Flightless birds: Palaeognathae
- 9.6 Neognathae
- 9.7 Diversification of birds
- 9.8 Further reading
- 10 The mammals
- 10.1 Cynodonts and the acquisition of mammalian characters
- 10.2 Te first mammals
- 10.3 The Mesozoic mammals
- 10.4 The marsupials
- 10.5 South American mammals - a world apart
- 10.6 Afrotheria and break-up of Gondwana
- The beginning of the age of placental mammals
- 10.8 Basal Laurasiatherians: insectivores and bats
- 10.9 Cetartiodactyla: cattle, pigs and whales
- 10.10 Perissodactyla: grazers and browsers
- 10.11 Carnivora and Pholidota
- 10.12 Archonta: primates, tree shrews and flying lemurs
- 10.13 Glires: rodents, rabbits and relatives
- 10.14 Ice Age extintion of large mammals
- 10.15 The pattern of mammalian evolution
- 10.16 Further reading
- 11 Huan evolution
- 11.1 What ar the primates?
- 11.2 The early fossil record of primates
- 11.3 Hominoidea: the apes
- 11.4 Evolution of human characteristics
- 11.5 The early stages of human evolution
- 11.7 Further reading
- Appendix: Classification of the vertebrates