Vertebrate palaeontology /

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Autor principal: Benton, Michael J.
Formato: Desconocido
Lenguaje:Español
Publicado: Oxford : Blakwell, 2010.
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