CSU-Carig
Rose, Kenneth David,
The beginning of the age of mammals / - Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2006 - 428 pages : illustration ;
1. Introduction -- 2. Mammalian skeletal structure and adaptations -- 3. The origin of mammals -- 4. Synopsis of mesozoic mammal evolution -- 5. Metatheria : marsupials and their relatives -- 6. Earliest eutherian mammals -- 7. Cimolesta -- 8. Credonta and carnivora -- 9. Insectivora -- 10. Archonta : bats, dermopterans, primates, and tree shrews -- 11. "Edentates" : xenarthra and pholidota -- 12. Archaic ungulates -- 13. Altungulata : perissodactyls, hyraxes, and tethytheres -- 14. Cete and artiodactyla -- 15. Anagalida : rodents, lagomorphs, and their relatives -- 16. Reflections and speculations on the beginning of the age of mammals.
0801884721 9780801884726
Paleontology
Mammals
Mammals
Life
569
The beginning of the age of mammals / - Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2006 - 428 pages : illustration ;
1. Introduction -- 2. Mammalian skeletal structure and adaptations -- 3. The origin of mammals -- 4. Synopsis of mesozoic mammal evolution -- 5. Metatheria : marsupials and their relatives -- 6. Earliest eutherian mammals -- 7. Cimolesta -- 8. Credonta and carnivora -- 9. Insectivora -- 10. Archonta : bats, dermopterans, primates, and tree shrews -- 11. "Edentates" : xenarthra and pholidota -- 12. Archaic ungulates -- 13. Altungulata : perissodactyls, hyraxes, and tethytheres -- 14. Cete and artiodactyla -- 15. Anagalida : rodents, lagomorphs, and their relatives -- 16. Reflections and speculations on the beginning of the age of mammals.
0801884721 9780801884726
Paleontology
Mammals
Mammals
Life
569