Evolution of the vertebrates : a history of the backboned animals through time /
Edwin H. Colbert
- 2nd ed.
- New Delhi : Wiley Eastern, 1969
- xvi, 535 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Jawless vertebrates -- Acanthodians and placoderms -- success of the fishes from water to land early vertebrate faunas Amphibians -- the advent of reptiles -- Mammal-like reptiles -- conquest of the land Early ruling reptiles -- marine reptiles flying reptiles and birds triumph of the dinosaurs years of the dinosaurs surviving reptiles beginning of the mammals marsupials introduction the placentals the diverging placentals evolution of the primates rodents and rabbits cetaceans creodonts and carnivores ancient hoofed mammals south american ungulates perissodactyls artiodactyls elephants and their kin the age of mammals