Mammals from the age of dinosaurs : origins, evolution, and structure /

The fossil record on Mesozoic mammals has expanded by orders of magnitude over the past quarter century. New specimens, some of them breathtakingly complete, have been found in nearly all parts of the globe at a rapid pace. Coupled with the application of new scientific approaches and techniques, th...

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Tác giả chính: Kielan-Jaworowska, Zofia
Tác giả khác: Cifelli, Richard, Luo, Zhe-Xi
Định dạng: Licensed eBooks
Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
Được phát hành: New York ; Chichester : Columbia University Press 2004.
Truy cập trực tuyến:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7312/kiel11918
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  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • FOREWORD
  • PREFACE
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Distribution: Mesozoic Mammals in Space and Time
  • 3. Origin of Mammals
  • 4. The Earliest-Known Stem Mammals
  • 5. Docodontans
  • 6. Australosphenidans and Shuotherium
  • 7. Eutriconodontans
  • 8. Allotherians
  • 9. "Symmetrodontans"
  • 10. "Eupantotherians" (Stem Cladotherians)
  • 11. "Tribotherians" (Stem Boreosphenidans)
  • 12. Metatherians
  • 13. Eutherians
  • 14. Gondwanatherians
  • 15. Interrelationships of Mesozoic Mammals
  • APPENDIX
  • REFERENCES
  • ADDITIONAL REFERENCES
  • ILLUSTRATION CREDITS
  • INDEX.