The Therian Skull A Lexicon With Emphasis On The Odontocetes Smithsonian Contributions To Zoology Number 627 2009
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The Therian Skull A Lexicon With Emphasis On The Odontocetes Smithsonian Contributions To Zoology Number 627 2009
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The Therian Skull
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Author : James G. Mead
language : en
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Release Date : 2009
The Therian Skull written by James G. Mead and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Anatomy, Comparative categories.
Cetacean Paleobiology
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Author : Felix G. Marx
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2016-03-29
Cetacean Paleobiology written by Felix G. Marx and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-29 with Science categories.
Cetaceans (whales, dolphins, and porpoises) have fascinated and bewildered humans throughout history. Their mammalian affinities have been long recognized, but exactly which group of terrestrial mammals they descend from has, until recently, remained in the dark. Recent decades have produced a flurry of new fossil cetaceans, extending their fossil history to over 50 million years ago. Along with new insights from genetics and developmental studies, these discoveries have helped to clarify the place of cetaceans among mammals, and enriched our understanding of their unique adaptations for feeding, locomotion and sensory systems. Their continuously improving fossil record and successive transformation into highly specialized marine mammals have made cetaceans a textbook case of evolution - as iconic in its own way as the origin of birds from dinosaurs. This book aims to summarize our current understanding of cetacean evolution for the serious student and interested amateur using photographs, drawings, charts and illustrations.
The Rise Of Marine Mammals
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Author : Annalisa Berta
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2017-10-02
The Rise Of Marine Mammals written by Annalisa Berta and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-02 with Science categories.
Setting the stage : rocks, fossils and evolution -- The oldest marine mammals : whales and sea cows -- Later diverging whales : Neoceti -- Aquatic carnivores : pinnipeds and a bear-like carnivoran -- Crown sirenians and their desmostylian relatives -- Aquatic sloths and recent occupants of the sea-sea otters and polar bears -- Diversity changes through time : the influence of climate change and humans
Mammalogy
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Author : Terry Vaughan
language : en
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning
Release Date : 2011-04-21
Mammalogy written by Terry Vaughan and has been published by Jones & Bartlett Learning this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-04-21 with Nature categories.
"Newly revised and extensively updated, the fifth edition of Mammalogy explains and clarifies the subject of mammalian biology as a unified whole, taking care to discuss the latest and most fascinating discoveries in the field. In recent years we witnessed significant changes in the taxonomy of mammals. The authors kept pace with such changes and revised each chapter to reflect the most current data and statistics available. New pedagogical elements, including chapter outlines, lists of key morphological characteristics, and further reading sections, help readers grasp the most important concepts and explore additional content on their own." --Book Jacket.
The Therian Skull
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Author : James G. Mead
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
The Therian Skull written by James G. Mead and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Anatomy, Comparative categories.
Cetaceans form one of the most unique groups in the evolutionary history of mammals. They have returned to the sea and modified their tail as an efficient means of locomotion. As they adapted to the limited visibility in the aquatic environment, the odontocetes developed a system of echolocation that resulted in extensive modifications to the skull bones. This made descriptive comparisons very difficult and early anatomists unwittingly composed new terms for anatomical structures that had already been named in other taxa. This made anatomical comparisons, based on the literature, extremely tenuous. This lexicon is an attempt to remedy that situation in that it provides headwords and definitions for all the terms that have been used in describing the mammal skull and notes the synonymous terms. The lexicon includes the human nomenclature (Nomina Anatomica), the veterinary nomenclature (Nomina Anatomica Veterinaria) and the nomenclature that is used in descriptive comparative anatomy. The lexicon covers not only extant but extinct mammalian groups and is extensively indexed.
A Manual Of The Mammalia
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Author : Douglas A. Kelt
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2020-09-01
A Manual Of The Mammalia written by Douglas A. Kelt and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-01 with Science categories.
“An outstanding contribution. . . . The glossary and illustrations are excellent and most helpful. This book will be the standard for years to come.” —Robert M. Timm, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, and past president, American Society of Mammalogists Douglas A. Kelt and James L. Patton provide a long-overdue update to Timothy E. Lawlor’s Handbook to the Orders and Families of Living Mammals in their new, wholly original work, A Manual of the Mammalia. Complemented by global range maps, high-resolution photographs of skulls and mandibles by Bill Stone, and the outstanding artwork of Fiona Reid, this book provides an overview of biological attributes of each higher taxon while highlighting key and diagnostic characters needed to identify skulls and skins of all recent mammalian orders and most families. Kelt and Patton also place taxa in their currently understood supra-familial clades, and discuss current challenges in higher mammal taxonomy. Including a comprehensive review of mammalian anatomy to provide a foundation for understanding all characters employed throughout, A Manual of the Mammalia is both a handbook for students learning to identify higher mammal taxa and a uniquely comprehensive reference for mammalogists from across the globe. “[A] comprehensive, lavishly illustrated reference book.” —Nature “A success overall. Recommended.” —Choice “There is hardly a better manual for comparing old and new taxonomic and phylogenetic constructs for the Class Mammalia.” —Michael A. Mares, director, curator, and professor emeritus, Sam Noble Museum, University of Oklahoma, and past president, American Society of Mammalogists “Kelt and Patton take mammalogy from a 1990’s flip phone to iPhone 13. A Manual of the Mammalia is entirely on a higher plane.” —Journal of Mammalogy
Bulletin Of The American Museum Of Natural History
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Author : Joel Asaph Allen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
Bulletin Of The American Museum Of Natural History written by Joel Asaph Allen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Anthropology categories.
Comprises articles on geology, paleontology, mammalogy, ornithology, entomology and anthropology.
Journal Of Vertebrate Paleontology
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language : en
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Release Date : 2012
Journal Of Vertebrate Paleontology written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Paleontology categories.
The Therian Skull
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Author : James G. Mead
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
The Therian Skull written by James G. Mead and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with categories.