| Description |
240 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 232-233) and index. |
| Contents |
1. The age of mammals -- 2. The origin and early evolution of mammals -- 3. Marsupials : pouched mammals -- 4. Placental mammals (Eutheria) -- 5. Xenarthra : sloths, anteaters, and armadillos -- 6. Afrotheria : elephants, hyraxes, sea cows, aardvarks, and their relatives -- 7. Euarchontoglires : Euarchonta. Primates, tree shrews, and colugos -- 8. Euarchontoglires : Glires. Rodents and lagomorphs -- 9. Laurasiatheria : insectivores. Order Eulipotyphla and other insectivorous mammals -- 10. Laurasiatheria : Chiroptera. Bats -- 11. Laurasiatheria : Pholidota. Pangolins, or "scaly anteaters" -- 12. Laurasiatheria : Carnivora and Creodonta. Predatory mammals -- 13. Laurasiatheria : Ungulata. Hoofed mammals and their relatives -- 14. Laurasiatheria : Artiodactyla. "Even-toed" hoofed mammals : pigs, hippos, whales, camels, ruminants, and their extinct relatives -- 15. Laurasiatheria : Perissodactyla. "Odd-toed" hoofed mammals : horses, rhinos, tapirs, and their extinct relatives -- 16. Laurasiatheria : Meridiungulata. South American hoofed mammals -- 17. Uintatheres, pantodonts, taeniodonts, and tillodonts -- 18. Mammalian evolution and extinction. |
| Summary |
After the mass extinction of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, mammals became the dominant terrestrial life form on our planet. Roaming the earth were spectacular beasts such as saber-toothed cats, giant mastodonts, immense ground sloths, and gigantic giraffe-like rhinoceroses. Author Donald Protero presents an illustrated field guide to the lost world of these weird and wonderful prehistoric creatures. The Princeton field guide to prehistoric mammals provides a wealth of new information about these animals--what they looked like, how they behaved, and how they were interrelated. Illustrated throughout with full-color reconstructions of these beasts--many never before depicted--along with photographs of fossils from around the world. |
| Subject(S) |
Mammals, Fossil -- Pictorial works.
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Extinct mammals -- Pictorial works.
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Paleontology -- Cenozoic.
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Mammals -- Evolution.
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Mammals -- Phylogeny.
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Illustrated works.
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| Added Name(S) |
Williams, Mary Persis, illustrator.
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| Added Title |
Field guide to prehistoric mammals |
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Prehistoric mammals |
| ISBN |
9780691156828 |
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0691156824 |
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