The Vertebrate Story1959 |
Contents
INTRODUCTION TO THE VERTEBRATES | 1 |
THE EVOLUTION OF FISHES | 36 |
MODERN FISHES | 67 |
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adult Africa amphibians ancestors animals apes appear aquatic archosaurs areas armor Asia Australian birds blood body bones bony brain braincase carnivores continents courtesy American Museum courtesy New York Cretaceous crossopterygians dinosaurs dwellers early eggs Eocene Europe evolution extinct feet fins fishes flesh-eaters forms fossil frog front gill habits head hind legs horses human ichthyosaurs known land lemurs limbs living lizards lower lungfish lungs mainly mammals marine Mediterraneans modern Mongoloid monkeys mouth Museum of Natural Natural History Neanderthal Nordics North America northern notochord Old World Oligocene ostracoderms pair Paleozoic pelycosaurs Photograph courtesy American Pleistocene plesiosaurs present primitive race region relatively reptilian rodents sharks similar skeleton skin skull snakes South southern species specimens structure tail teeth teleosts tend terrestrial tiny tion toes tooth tropical turtles types typical ungulates Upper Paleolithic vertebrates whales York Zoological Society