Description |
xii, 362 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 27 cm. |
Series |
Life of the past
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Life of the past.
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-348) and index. |
Contents |
Introduction -- The end of the dinosaurs? -- Brave new world: the Paleocene -- Dawn of the recent: the Eocene -- The icehouse cometh: the Oligocene -- The Savanna story: the Miocene -- The world in transition: the Pliocene -- Ice time: the Pleistocene -- Our interglacial: the Holocene. |
Subject |
Mammals, Fossil.
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Mammals, Fossil. |
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Paleontology -- Cenozoic.
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Paleontology. |
Chronological Term |
Cenozoic |
ISBN |
0253347335 cloth alkaline paper |
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9780253347336 cloth alkaline paper |
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