Introduction to paleobiology and the fossil record
[Book]
/ Michael J. Benton, David A.T. Harper
Chichester, UK ;Hoboken, NJ
: Wiley-Blackwell,
, 2009.
xii, 592 p., ill., maps, 28 cm.
Language: انگلیسی
Print
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Paleontology as a science -- Fossils in time and space -- Taphonomy and quality of the fossil record -- Paleoecology and paleoclimates -- Macroevolution and the tree of life -- Fossil form and function -- Mass extinctions and biodiversity loss -- The origin of life -- Protists -- Origin of the metazoans -- The basal metazoans -- Spiralians I -- Spiralians 2 -- Ecdysozoa -- Deuterostomes echinoderms and hemichordates -- Fishes and basal tetrapods -- Dinosaurs and mammals -- Fossil plants -- Trace fossils -- Diversification of life.