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Colbert, Edwin Harris,

Colbert's evolution of the vertebrates : a history of the backboned animals through time / Edwin H. Colbert, Michael Morales, Eli C. Minkoff. - 5th ed. - New York : Wiley, c2001. - xvi, 560 p. ill. ; 26 cm.

Rev. ed. of: Evolution of the vertebrates / Edwin H. Colbert. 4th ed. 1991.

1. Jawless vertebrates ;
2. Acanthodians and placoderms ;
3. Sharklike fishes ;
4. Bony fishes ;
5. Lobe-fin fishes and the transition to land ;
6. Early Paleozoic faunas ;
7. Amphibians ;
8. the advent of reptiles ;
9. Late Paleozoic faunas ;
10. Aquatic reptiles ;
11. Early ruling reptiles ;
12. Triumph of the dinosaurs ;
13. Aerial reptiles ;
14. Birds ;
15. Years of the dinosaurs ;
16. Mammal-like reptiles ;
17. Beginning of the mammals ;
18. Marsupials ;
19. Introduction to the placentals ;
20. Early placental diversification ;
21. Primates and their kin ;
22. Rodents and rabbits ;
23. Creodonts and carnivores ;
24. Whales and dolphins ;
25. Primitive ungulates ;
26. Artiodactyls ;
27. South American ungulates ;
28. Perissodactyls ;
29. Elephants and their kin ;
30. Cenozoic faunas ;
31. A classification of the phylum chordata.


ISBN: 0471384615 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780471384618

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

Dewey Class. No.: 566 / C684