Evolution of the VertebratesAn investigation of the evolution of backboned animals (vertebrates), now appearing in its Fourth Edition. Traces the history of each major vertebrate group from its origin to its extinction or the emergence of the next, more advanced group. Contains drawings and illustrations depicting lifelike renderings of these creatures of the past. |
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Jawless Vertebrates | 21 |
Acanthodians and Placoderms | 38 |
Success of Fishes | 44 |
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adaptive radiation Africa amphibians ancestors animals aquatic armor artiodactyls Asia became birds body bones bony fishes braincase canine carnivores Cenozoic cheek teeth condylarths continued creodonts Cretaceous crocodilians cusps deer dentition Devonian diapsids dinosaurs early elongated Eocene epoch evolution evolutionary evolved extinct faunas feet Figure fins front genera genus geologic giant hind limbs hoofed mammals horns horses ichthyosaurs incisors indicate Infraorder insectivores Jurassic known labyrinthodonts land-living later lines living lizards lower jaw lower molars mals mammalian mammals marine marsupials mastodonts Mesozoic Miocene modern molar teeth North America notoungulates numerous Oligocene Order ornithischian ostracoderms Paleocene Paleozoic pelvis perissodactyls Permian placental mammals placoderms Pleistocene Pliocene premolars Prepared by Lois primitive probably proboscideans region reptiles reptilian rodents sediments sharks skeleton South specialized Suborder Superfamily tail temporal opening Tertiary tetrapods thecodonts therapsids theriodonts theropod tion titanotheres toes tooth trend Triassic Triassic period ungulates upper vertebrates whales