Kielan-Jaworowska / Cifelli / Luo Mammals from the Age of Dinosaurs

Origins, Evolution, and Structure
1. Auflage 2004
ISBN: 978-0-231-50927-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 700 Seiten, Format (B × H): 203 mm x 279 mm

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Kielan-Jaworowska, Zofia

Cifelli, Richard

Luo, Zhe-Xi

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Tierkunde / Zoologie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Evolutionsbiologie
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Paläontologie, Taphonomie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

FOREWORD, by J. A. Lillegraven and W. A. Clemens
PROLOGUE
1. Introduction
2. Distribution: Mesozoic Mammals in Space and Time
3. Origin of Mammals
4. The Earliest-Known Stem Mammals
5. Docodontans
6. Australosphenida and Shotherium
7. Eutriconodontans
8. Allotherians
9. "Symmetrodontans" (Stem Trechnotherians)
10. "Eupantotherians" (Stem Cladotherians)
11. "Tribotherians" (Stem Boreosphenidans)
12. Metatherians
13. Eutherians
14. Gondwanatherians
15. Interrelationships of Mesozoic Mammals

Über Autor(innen)

Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska is professor emeritus at the Institute of Paleobiology, Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw and the University of Oslo. She was the leader of the Polish-Mongolian expedition to the Gobi Desert (1963–1971) that discovered spectacular dinosaurs and mammals. She has devoted most of her scientific life to the studies of the Mesozoic mammals.

Richard L. Cifelli is curator of vertebrate paleontology at the Oklahoma Museum of Natural History and professor of zoology at the University of Oklahoma. He has led extensive field explorations of fossil vertebrates in the Mesozoic and Cenozoic of North and South Americas and studied the biogeographical and faunal evolution of early mammals.

Zhe-Xi Luo is curator of vertebrate paleontology at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh. He has actively explored fossil mammals and dinosaurs in China and in the United States and studied evolutionary morphology and phylogenetic relationships of early mammals and fossil whales.