Prehistoric Life / Percy E. Raymond.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Raymond, Percy E., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Paleontology.

Local Subjects:

Paleontology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (333 p.): 1 Frontispiz

Edition:

5th printing 1967. Reprint 2014

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

GEOLOGICAL TIMETABLE

I. FOSSILS

II. COLLECTING FOSSILS

III. THE FIRST ANIMALS AND PLANTS

IV. PRE-CAMBRIAN LIFE

V. THE ORDOVICIAN FAUNA

VI. PETRIFIED BUTTERFLIES

VII. THE AQUATIC ARACHNIDS

VIII. THE RADIATES

IX. THE BEGINNINGS OF THE CHORDATES

X. THE ORIGIN OF THE VERTEBRATES

XI. THE RISE OF THE AIR-BREATHING VERTEBRATES

XII. AMPHIBIA, THE FIRST TETRAPODS

XIII. THE FIRST REPTILES

XIV. THE TERRIBLE LIZARDS

XV. MORE ABOUT DINOSAURS

XVI. MARINE REPTILES

XVII. FLYING REPTILES

XVIII. FROM SCALES TO FEATHERS

XIX. SQUIDS, DEVILFISH, AND CHAMBERED SHELLS

XX. INSECTS: THE FIRST AVIATORS

XXI. ARCHAIC MAMMALS

XXII. THE MAMMALS INHERIT THE EARTH

XXIII. BEASTS OF PREY

XXIV. VEGETARIANS SEIZE THEIR OPPORTUNITY

XXV. SOME GENEALOGIES

XXVI. MAMMALS OF YESTERDAY

XXVII. THE ANCESTRY OF MAN

XXVIII. THE IMPORTANCE OF PLANTS

XXIX. RETROSPECT AND PROSPECT

INDEX

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)

ISBN:

0-674-42999-0

OCLC:

1013945048