عنوان

Gaining ground :

(Number (ISBN

025300537X (e-pub)

(Number (ISBN

025335675X (cloth : alk. paper)

(Number (ISBN

9780253005373 (e-pub)

(Number (ISBN

9780253356758 (cloth : alk. paper)

Number

b411208

Title Proper

Gaining ground :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

the origin and evolution of tetrapods /

First Statement of Responsibility

Jennifer A. Clack.

Edition Statement

2nd ed.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Bloomington :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Indiana University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

c2012.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

523 p., [16] p. of plates :

Other Physical Details

ill. (some col.), maps ;

Dimensions

27 cm.

Series Title

Life of the past

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 447-470) and index.

Text of Note

Introduction: The Origin and Evolution of Tetrapods -- Skulls and Skeletons in Transition -- Relationships and Relatives : The Lobe-Fin Family -- Setting the Scene : The Devonian World -- The First Feet : Tetrapods of the Famennian -- From Fins to Feet : Transformation and Transition -- Emerging into the Carboniferous : The First Phase -- East Kirkton and the Roots of the Modern Family Tree -- The Late Carboniferous : Expanding Horizons -- Gaining Ground : The Evolution of Terrestriality.

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Text of Note

"Around 370 million years ago, a distant relative of a modern lungfish began a most extraordinary adventure -- emerging from the water and laying claim to the land. Over the next 70 million years, this tentative beachhead had developed into a worldwide colonization by ever-increasing varieties of four-limbed creatures known as tetrapods, the ancestors of all vertebrate life on land. This new edition of Jennifer A. Clack's groundbreaking book tells the complex story of their emergence and evolution. Beginning with their closest relatives, the lobe-fin fishes such as lungfishes and coelacanths, Clack defines what a tetrapod is, describes their anatomy, and explains how they are related to other vertebrates. She looks at the Devonian environment in which they evolved, describes the known and newly discovered species, and explores the order and timing of anatomical changes that occurred during the fish-to-tetrapod transition."--Publisher's description.

Amphibians, Fossil.

Leg-- Evolution.

Lungfishes, Fossil.

Paleontology-- Carboniferous.

Paleontology-- Devonian.

Number

Edition

Class number

Book number

Clack, Jennifer A.,1937-

Date of Transaction

20131017044222.0

Electronic name

[Book]

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