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Carroll, Robert L. 1938-

Vertebrate paleontology and evolution / Robert L. Carroll. - xiv, 698 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Fossils and relationships -- The origin of vertebrates -- The diversity of jawless fish -- Primitive jawed fish -- Sharks and other cartilaginous fish -- Acanthodians and primitive bony fish -- Advanced bony fish : the Telecosts -- Sarcopterygian fish -- The conquest of land and the radiation of amphibians -- Primitive amniotes and turtles -- Primitive diapsids and lepidosaurs -- Mesozoic marine reptiles -- Primitive archosauromorphs and crocodiles -- The anatomy and relationships of dinosaurs -- The biology and extinction of dinosaurs -- Flight -- The origin of mammals -- Primitive Mesozoic mammals and monotremes -- Primitive Therian mammals and marsupials -- The radiation of placental mammals -- Ungulates, edentates, and whales -- Evolution -- Appendix: Classification of vertebrates.

ISBN: 0716718227 9780716718222

LCCN: 86031808

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Vertebrates, Fossil
Vertebrates--Evolution.

LC Class. No.: QE841 / .C254 1988