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Cretaceous and Tertiary Actinopterygian Fishes from Brazil. Bulletin of the AMNH ; V. 89, Article 1
Author: On Certain Genera and Species of North American Cretaceous Actinopterous Fishes. Bulletin of the AMNH ; V. 19, Article 1
Author: Research Catalog of the Library of the American Museum of Natural History
Author: American Museum of Natural History. LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 718
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Cretaoeous and Tertiary Actinopterygian Fishes from Brazil
Author: Bobb SchaefferFossil Invertebrata from Northeastern Brazil. Bulletin of the AMNH ; V. 67, Article 4
Author: The Diversity of Fishes
Author: Gene HelfmanPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1444311905
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 736
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The second edition of The Diversity of Fishes represents a major revision of the world’s most widely adopted ichthyology textbook. Expanded and updated, the second edition is illustrated throughout with striking color photographs depicting the spectacular evolutionary adaptations of the most ecologically and taxonomically diverse vertebrate group. The text incorporates the latest advances in the biology of fishes, covering taxonomy, anatomy, physiology, biogeography, ecology, and behavior. A new chapter on genetics and molecular ecology of fishes has been added, and conservation is emphasized throughout. Hundreds of new and redrawn illustrations augment readable text, and every chapter has been revised to reflect the discoveries and greater understanding achieved during the past decade. Written by a team of internationally-recognized authorities, the first edition of The Diversity of Fishes was received with enthusiasm and praise, and incorporated into ichthyology and fish biology classes around the globe, at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. The second edition is a substantial update of an already classic reference and text. Companion resources site This book is accompanied by a resources site: www.wiley.com/go/helfman The site is being constantly updated by the author team and provides: · Related videos selected by the authors · Updates to the book since publication · Instructor resources · A chance to send in feedback
Late Cretaceous/Paleogene West Antarctica Terrestrial Biota and its Intercontinental Affinities
Author: Marcelo RegueroPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9400754914
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 124
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One of the most intriguing paleobiogeographical phenomena involving the origins and gradual sundering of Gondwana concerns the close similarities and, in most cases, inferred sister-group relationships of a number of terrestrial and freshwater vertebrate taxa, e.g., dinosaurs, flying birds, mammals, etc., recovered from uppermost Cretaceous/ Paleogene deposits of West Antarctica, South America, and NewZealand/Australia. For some twenty five extensive and productive investigations in the field of vertebrate paleontology has been carried out in latest Cretaceous and Paleogene deposits in the James Ross Basin, northeast of the Antarctic Peninsula (AP), West Antarctica, on the exposed sequences on James Ross, Vega, Seymour (=Marambio) and Snow Hill islands respectively. The available geological, geophysical and marine faunistic evidence indicates that the peninsular (AP) part of West Antarctica and the western part of the tip of South America (Magallanic Region, southern Chile) were positioned very close in the latest Cretaceous and early Paleogene favoring the “Overlapping” model of South America-Antarctic Peninsula paleogeographic reconstruction. Late Cretaceous deposits from Vega, James Ross, Seymour and Snow Hill islands have produced a discrete number of dinosaur taxa and a number of advanced birds together with four mosasaur and three plesiosaur taxa, and a few shark and teleostean taxa.
The biology of Latimeria chalumnae and evolution of coelacanths
Author: J.A. MusickPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401131945
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 444
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World Atlas of Biodiversity
Author: Brian GroombridgePublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520236684
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 362
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Global biological diversity, ecosystem diversity.
Living Fossils
Author: N. EldredgePublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1461382718
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 445
Book Description
The case history approach has an impressive record of success in a variety of disciplines. Collections of case histories, casebooks, are now widely used in all sorts of specialties other than in their familiar appli cation to law and medicine. The case method had its formal beginning at Harvard in 1871 when Christopher Lagdell developed it as a means of teaching. It was so successful in teaching law that it was soon adopted in medical education, and the collection of cases provided the raw material for research on various diseases. Subsequently, the case history approach spread to such varied fields as business, psychology, management, and economics, and there are over 100 books in print that use this approach. The idea for a series of Casehooks in Earth Science grew from my experience in organizing and editing a collection of examples of one variety of sedimentary deposits. The prqject began as an effort to bring some order to a large number of descriptions of these deposits that were so varied in presentation and terminology that even specialists found them difficult to compare and analyze. Thus, from the beginning, it was evident that something more than a simple collection of papers was needed. Accordingly, the nearly fifty contributors worked together with George de Vries Klein and me to establish a standard format for presenting the case histories.