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Tables of Contents for Vertebrate Palaeontology
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
xi
 
Vertebrate origins
1
14
The oldest chordate and the oldest vertebrate
3
1
Sea squirts and the lancelet
4
2
Phylum Hemichordata: pterobranchs and acorn worms
6
1
Chordate origins: embryology and relationships
6
6
Craniates and the head
12
1
Further reading
13
2
How to study fossil vertebrates
15
22
Digging up bones
16
6
Geology and fossil vertebrates
22
5
Biology and fossil vertebrates
27
8
Further reading
35
2
Early fishes
37
38
The extinct jawless fishes
38
9
Living agnathans
47
3
Origin of jaws and gnathostome relationships
50
3
Class Chondrichthyes: the first sharks
53
1
Class Placodermi: armour-plated monsters
54
4
Class Acanthodii: the 'spiny skins'
58
1
Devonian environments
59
5
The bony fishes
64
6
Early fish evolution and mass extinction
70
3
Further reading
73
2
The early tetrapods and amphibians
75
28
Problems of life on land
76
4
Devonian tetrapods
80
4
The Carboniferous world
84
2
Diversity of Carboniferous tetrapods
86
6
Temnospondyls and reptiliomorphs after the Carboniferous
92
5
Evolution of the modern amphibians
97
5
Further reading
102
1
The evolution of early amniotes
103
30
Hylonomus and Paleothyris - biology of the first amniotes
104
1
The cleidoic egg - a private pond
105
4
The Carboniferous amniotes
109
2
The Permian world
111
1
Pelycosaurs - the sail-backed synapsids
112
2
The therapsids of the Late Permian
114
7
Radiation of anapsids and diapsids in the Permian
121
6
Mass extinction
127
5
Further reading
132
1
Reptiles of the Triassic
133
24
The Triassic scene
134
1
Evolution of the archosauromorphs
135
13
In Triassic seas
148
3
The origin of the dinosaurs
151
5
Further reading
156
1
The evolution of fishes after the Devonian
157
30
The early sharks and chimaeras
158
6
Post-Palaeozoic chondrichthyan evolution
164
4
The early bony fishes
168
7
Radiation of the teleosts
175
7
Post-Devonian evolution of fishes
182
3
Further reading
185
2
The age of dinosaurs
187
72
Biology of Plateosaurus
188
2
The Jurassic and Cretaceous world
190
1
The diversity of saurischian dinosaurs
191
10
The diversity of ornithischian dinosaurs
201
13
Dinosaurian biology - warm-blooded or not?
214
7
Order Pterosauria
221
9
Order Crocodylia
230
3
Order Testudines: the turtles
233
3
Superorder Lepidosauria
236
5
The great sea dragons
241
5
Diversification of Jurassic-Cretaceous reptiles
246
3
The great extinction
249
8
Further reading
257
2
The birds
259
28
Archaeopteryx
260
5
The origins of bird flight
265
3
Toothed birds of the Cretaceous
268
6
Flightless birds: Division Palaeognathae
274
2
Division Neognathae
276
9
Diversification of the birds
285
1
Further reading
286
1
The mammals
287
76
The cynodonts and the acquisition of mammalian characters
288
9
Morganucodon - the first mammal
297
4
The Mesozoic mammals
301
9
The marsupials
310
2
South American mammals - another world apart
312
9
The beginning of the age of placental mammals
321
7
Order Lipotyphla: hedgehogs, moles and shrews
328
1
Order Carnivora
328
3
Superorder Archonta: bats, tree shrews, flying lemurs and primates
331
5
Radiation of the rodents
336
5
Order Perissodactyla: browsers and grazers
341
3
Order Artiodactyla: cattle, deer and pigs
344
4
Order Cetacea: evolution of the whales
348
3
Grandorder Paenungulata: elephants and their relatives
351
5
Orders Tubulidentata and Pholidota: odd ant-eaters
356
1
Extinctions in the Ice Ages
356
1
Phylogeny of the placentals
357
3
The pattern of mammalian evolution
360
1
Further reading
361
2
Human evolution
363
28
What are the primates?
364
1
The early fossil record of primates
365
5
Superfamily Hominoidea: the apes
370
4
Evolution of human characteristics
374
4
The early stages of human evolution
378
4
The last two million years of human evolution
382
7
Further reading
389
2
Appendix: Classification of the vertebrates
391
14
Glossary
405
4
References
409
28
Index
437