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The evolution of mammalian characters / D.M. Kermack and K.A. Kermack ; illustrated by A.J. Lee.
- Title
- The evolution of mammalian characters / D.M. Kermack and K.A. Kermack ; illustrated by A.J. Lee.
- Author
- Kermack, D. M.
- Publication
- London : Croom Helm ; Washington, D.C. : Kapitan Szabo Publishers, c1984.
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- Additional Authors
- Kermack, K. A.
- Description
- x, 149 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographies and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Chapter 1. The ancestors of the mammals. Earliest vertebrates -- Anamniotes and amniotes -- Sauropsida and Theropsida -- The Synapsida -- The Pelycosauria -- Chapter 2. The Therapsids. Anomodontia -- Theriodontia -- Gorgonopsia -- Therocephalia -- Bauriomorpha -- Cynodontia -- Chapter 3. Specialised Cynodont derivatives. Chiniquodontidae -- Ictidosauria -- Dromatherium and Microconodon -- Teeth from the Wurttemburg bone-bed -- Tritylodontidae -- Haramiyidae -- Chapter 4. The first mammals. The definition of a mammal -- The time of origin of the mammals -- Primitive mammals -- Morganucodon -- an early atherian mammal -- Kuehneotherium -- an early therian mammal -- Chapter 5. Dentitions, tooth-replacement and jaw articulation. Dental terminology -- Tooth replacement -- Evolution of mammalian canines -- Evolution of mammalian cheek-teeth -- The bones of the lower jaw -- Chapter 6. The evolution of mammalian sight and hearing. The competitors of early mammals -- Sight in a nocturnal environment -- The olfactory sense in the nocturnal environment -- Hearing in mammal-like reptiles -- The location of the tympanic membrane -- Location by sound -- The evolution of the mammalian middle ear -- Chapter 7. The completion of the first stage of mammalian evolution in the Middle Jurassic. Stonesfield mammals -- Other Middle Jurassic mammals -- Chapter 8. The mammals of the Upper Jurassic. The Durdlestone (Durlston) Bay mammals -- The mammals of the Morrison Formation -- The Guimarota mammals -- Other Upper Jurassic faunas -- Triconodonta -- Docodonta -- Multituberculata -- Pantotheria -- Chapter 9. The mammals of the Lower Cretaceous. Wealden mammals -- Asian lower cretaceous mammals -- The origin of marsupials and placentals.
- ISBN
- 0709915349
- 091684501X (Kapitan Szabo) :
- LCCN
- ^^^84005783^
- OCLC
- 10710687
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library