The vertebrate storyDescribes the habits and structural, functional, and behavioral development of vertebrate animals through four hundred million years of history |
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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 Australia birds blood body bones bony brain braincase carnivores continents courtesy American Museum courtesy New York crossopterygians dinosaurs dwellers early eggs Eocene Europe evolution extinct feet fins fishes flesh-eaters forms fossil frog front gill habits head hind legs human ichthyosaurs known land lemurs limbs living lizards lower lungfish lungs mainly major mammals marine Mediterraneans modern Mongoloid monkeys mouth Museum of Natural Natural History Neanderthal Nordic North America northern notochord Old World Oligocene ostracoderms pair Paleozoic Photograph courtesy American Pleistocene plesiosaurs present primitive race region relatively reptiles reptilian rodents sharks similar skeleton skin skull snakes South southern species specimens structure tail teeth teleosts tend terrestrial tiny tion toes tooth Triassic tropical turtles types typical ungulates Upper Paleolithic vertebrates whales York Zoological Society
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| Title | The vertebrate story |
| Author | Alfred Sherwood Romer |
| Edition | 4, illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press, 1959 |
| ISBN | 0226724905, 9780226724904 |
| Length | 437 pages |
| Subjects | › › › Evolution Paleontology Science / General Science / Life Sciences / Evolution Science / Life Sciences / Zoology / General Science / Paleontology Vertebrates |
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