Vertebrate paleontology and evolution / Robert L. Carroll.

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.