Gaining ground : the origin and evolution of tetrapods / Jennifer A. Clack.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Clack, Jennifer A., 1937-

Series:

Life of the past.

Life of the past

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Amphibians, Fossil.

Leg--Evolution.

Leg.

Lungfishes, Fossil.

Paleontology--Carboniferous.

Paleontology.

Paleontology--Devonian.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (559 p.)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Around 370 million years ago, a distant relative of a modern lungfish began a most extraordinary adventure-emerging from the water and laying claim to the land. Over the next 70 million years, this tentative beachhead had developed into a worldwide colonization by ever-increasing varieties of four-limbed creatures known as tetrapods, the ancestors of all vertebrate life on land. This new edition of Jennifer A. Clack's groundbreaking book tells the complex story of their emergence and evolution. Beginning with their closest relatives, the lobe-fin fishes such as lungfishes and coelacanths, C

Contents:

Introduction: The Origin of Tetrapods

Skulls and Skeletons in Transition

Relationships and Relatives : The Lobe-Fin Family

Setting the Scene : The Devonian World

The First Feet : Tetrapods of the Famennian

From Fins to Feet : Transformation and Transition

Emerging into the Carboniferous : The First Phase

East Kirkton and the Roots of the Modern Family Tree

The Late Carboniferous : Expanding Horizons

Gaining Ground : The Evolution of Terrestriality.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613683380

9781280772610

1280772611

9780253005373

025300537X

OCLC:

802053887