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1 online resource (xiv, 428 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (chiefly color) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-397) and index. |
| Contents |
""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""1 Introduction""; ""THE EARLY CENOZIC MAMMALIAN RADIATION""; ""TIMING OF THE CROWN-THERIAN RADIATION""; ""MAMMALIAN PHYLOGENY, INTERRELATIONSHIPS, AND CLASSIFICATION""; ""GEOCHRONOLOGY AND BIOCHRONOLOGY OF THE EARLY CENOZOIC""; ""PALEOGEOGRAPHIC SETTING DURING THE BEGINNING OF THE AGE OF MAMMALS""; ""PALEOCENE-EOCENE CLIMATE AND FLORA""; ""ORGANIZATION OF THE VOLUME""; ""2 Mammalian Skeletal Structure and Adaptations""; ""SKULL""; ""DENTITION""; ""POSTCRANIAL SKELETON""; ""SKELETAL ADAPTATIONS""; ""3 The Origin of Mammals"" |
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""WHAT IS A MAMMAL?""""THE EVOLUTIONARY TRANSITION TO MAMMALS""; ""4 Synopsis of Mesozoic Mammal Evolution""; ""HISTORICAL BACKGROUND""; ""THE OLDEST MAMMALS""; ""DOCODONTA""; ""MULTITUBERCULATA""; ""EUTRICONODONTA""; ""SYMMETRODONTS""; ""EUPANTOTHERES""; ""TRIBOSPHENIC MAMMALS""; ""MESOZOIC MAMMALS OF UNCERTAIN AFFINITY""; ""5 Metatheria: Marsupials and Their Relatives""; ""BASAL METATHERIANS""; ""PRIMITIVE MARSUPIALS""; ""6 Earliest Eutherian Mammals""; ""7 Cimolesta""; ""DIDELPHODONTA AND OTHER PRIMITIVE CIMOLESTA""; ""DIDYMOCONIDAE""; ""PANTOLESTA""; ""APATOTHERIA""; ""TAENIODONTA"" |
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""TILLODONTIA""""PANTODONTA""; ""8 Creodonta and Carnivora""; ""CREODONTA""; ""CARNIVORA""; ""9 Insectivora""; ""LEPTICTIDA""; ""LIPOTYPHLA""; ""10 Archonta: Bats, Dermopterans, Primates, and Tree Shrews""; ""CHIROPTERA""; ""DERMOPTERA""; ""PRIMATES AND PLESIADAPIFORMES""; ""SCANDENTIA""; ""11 “Edentates:� Xenarthra and Pholidota""; ""XENARTHRA""; ""PHOLIDOTA""; ""12 Archaic Ungulates""; ""OLDEST UNGULATE RELATIVES""; ""CONDYLARTHRA: ARCHAIC UNGULATES""; ""ARCTOSTYLOPIDA""; ""MERIDIUNGULATA: ENDEMIC SOUTH AMERICAN UNGULATES""; ""DINOCERATA"" |
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""13 Altungulata: Perissodactyls, Hyraxes, and Tethytheres""""PERISSODACTYLA""; ""PAENUNGULATA""; ""14 Cete and Artiodactyla""; ""CETE AND CETACEA""; ""ARTIODACTYLA""; ""15 Anagalida: Rodents, Lagomorphs, and Their Relatives""; ""PRIMITIVE ASIAN ANAGALIDANS AND POSSIBLE ANAGALIDANS""; ""MACROSCELIDEA""; ""GLIRES""; ""16 Reflections and Speculations on the Beginning of the Age of Mammals""; ""EARLY CENOZOIC MAMMAL RECORD""; ""SYNOPSIS OF PALEOCENE AND EOCENE MAMMALS""; ""A FINAL NOTE""; ""Literature Cited""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K"" |
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| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Paleontology -- Cenozoic.
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Paleontology. |
| Chronological Term |
Cenozoic |
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Mammals -- History.
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Mammals. |
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History. |
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Mammals -- Evolution.
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Mammals -- Evolution. |
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Life -- Origin.
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Life -- Origin. |
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From 65 million years ago |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Rose, Kenneth David, 1949- Beginning of the age of mammals. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006 (DLC) 2006008096 |
| ISBN |
9780801892219 (electronic book) |
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080189221X (electronic book) |
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9780801880223 |
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080188022X |
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0801884721 |
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080188022X |
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9780801884726 |
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