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Anyone interested in the history of life--from paleontologists to inquisitive birders--will find Birds of Stone an irresistible feast for the eyes and mind.
Paleontology --- Birds, Fossil. --- Amniotes, Fossil --- Vertebrates, Fossil
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In this book, evolutionary classification and nomenclature in the Cretaceous planktic foraminifera with at least one stage with chambers alternately added with respect to the test growth axis are analyzed in seven articles. The first article in this book presents new data about the group's evolutionary origin and different aspects of the iterative evolution of the planktic habitat in the foraminiferal history, together with a critical review of some past ideas on this topic. A new benthic foraminiferal genus is described. The evolution of different lineages is presented in five successive arti
Foraminifera, Fossil --- Protista, Fossil --- Plankton, Fossil. --- Paleobiology. --- Palaeobiology --- Biology --- Paleontology --- Animals, Fossil --- Plants, Fossil --- Invertebrates, Fossil --- Protozoa, Fossil
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Biomolecules, Fossil --- Ancient biomolecules --- Fossil biomolecules --- Biogeochemistry --- Biomolecules --- Biomolecules, Fossil.
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Birds --- Birds, Fossil. --- Amniotes, Fossil --- Vertebrates, Fossil --- Flight. --- Evolution.
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Vertebrate evolution has led to the convergent appearance of many groups of originally terrestrial animals that now live in the sea. Among these groups are familiar mammals like whales, dolphins, and seals. There are also reptilian lineages (like plesiosaurs, ichthyosaurs, mosasaurs, thalattosaurs, and others) that have become sea creatures. Most of these marine reptiles, often wrongly called ""dinosaurs"", are extinct. This edited book is devoted to these extinct groups of marine reptiles. These reptilian analogs represent useful models of the myriad adaptations that permit tetrapods to live
Marine reptiles, Fossil. --- Marine animals, Fossil. --- Marine reptiles, Fossil
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Quaternary Entomology addresses the science of fossil insects by demonstrating their immense contribution to our knowledge of the paleoenvironmental and climatological record of the past 2 million years. In this comprehensive survey of the field, Scott A. Elias recounts development of scholarship, reviews the fossil insect record from Quaternary deposits throughout the world, and points to rewarding areas for future research. The study of quaternary entomology is becoming an important tool in understanding past environmental changes. Most insects are quite specific as to habitat requireme
Insects, Fossil. --- Paleoentomology --- Quaternary Period --- Arthropoda, Fossil
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Fossil fuels --- Fossil energy --- Fuel --- Energy minerals
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Foraminifera, Fossil. --- Micropaleontology. --- Paleontology --- Protozoa, Fossil
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Pterosaurs or flying reptiles were the first vertebrates to evolve flight. These distant relatives of modern reptiles and dinosaurs lived from the Late Triassic (over 200 million years ago) to the end of the Cretaceous (about 65 million years ago) a span of some 135 million years. When they became extinct, no relatives survived them and as a result these prehistoric animals cannot readily be compared with our modern-day fauna. So what do we know of these highly succsessful animals? The present summary answers this and many more questions based on the most recent results of modern scientific re
Pterosauria. --- Pterosaurs --- Reptiles, Fossil
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