Vertebrate life / F. Harvey Pough, Christine M. Janis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pough, F. Harvey, author.

Janis, Christine M. (Christine Marie), 1950- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vertebrates.

Vertebrates, Fossil.

Genre:

Textbooks.

Physical Description:

xvii, 552, 2, 8, 5, 34 pages : illustrations (black and white, and color), maps (black and white, and color) ; 29 cm

Edition:

Tenth edition.

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford : Sinauer Associates/Oxford University Press, [2018]

Contents:

1. Evolution, diversity, and classification of vertebrates

2. What is a vertebrate?

3. Jawless vertebrates and the origin of jawed vertebrates

4. Living in water

5. Geography and ecology of the Paleozoic era

6. Radiation of diversification of chondrichthyes

7. Extant chondrichthyans

8. Radiation and diversity of osteichthyes

9. Extant bony fishes

10. Origin and radiation of tetrapods

11. Extant amphibians

12. Living on land

13. Geography and ecology of the Mesozoic Era

14. Synapsids and sauropsids

15. Ectothermy : a low-energy approach to life

16. Turtles

17. Lepidosaurs

18. Crocodylians

19. Mesozoic diapsids : dinosaurs and others

20. Endothermy: a high-energy approach to life

21. The origin and radiation of birds

22. Extant birds

23. Geography and ecology of the Cenozoic Era

24. Synapsida and the evolution of mammals

25. Extant mammals

26. Primate evolution and the emergence of humans.

Notes:

Previous edition: Boston: Pearson, 2013.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Pough, F. Harvey. Vertebrate life.

ISBN:

9781605356075

1605356077

OCLC:

1059227278