Bringing fossils to life : an introduction to paleobiology / Donald R. Prothero.
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
[2013]
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| Edition: | Third edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- To the student : why study fossils?
- Part I. The fossil record : a window on the past. 1. The fossil record ; 2. Variation in fossils ; 3. Species and speciation ; 4. Systematics ; 5. Evolution ; 6. Extinction ; 7. Functional morphology ; 8. Paleoecology ; 9. Biogeography ; 10. Biostratigraphy
- Part II. Life of the past and present. 11. Life's origins and early evolution ; 12. Micropaleontology : fossil protistans ; 13. Colonial life : sponges, archaeocyathans, and cnidarians ; 14. The "lophophorates" : brachiopods and bryozoans ; 15. Jointed limbs : the arthropods ; 16. Kingdom of the seashell : the molluscs ; 17. Spiny skins : the echinoderms ; 18. Dry bones : vertebrates and their relatives ; 19. Fossilized behavior : trace fossils ; 20. Traces of the earth's green mantle : paleobotany
- Glossary.