Palaeontology category: 374 books
Horned Armadillos and Rafting Monkeys
The Fascinating Fossil Mammals of South America
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2016
South America is home to some of the most distinctive mammals on Earth—giant armadillos, tiny anteaters, the world’s largest rodent, and its smallest deer. But the continent once supported a variety of other equally intriguing mammals that have no close living relatives: armored mammals with tail...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
This overview of dinosaur discoveries in Mexico synthesizes current information about the geography and environment of the region during the Mesozoic when it was the western margin of the ancient continent of Pangea. The book summarizes research on various groups, including turtles, lepidosauromorphs,...
Avian Ancestors
A Review of the Phylogenetic Relationships of the Theropods Unenlagiidae, Microraptoria, Anchiornis and Scansoriopterygidae
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
Although consensus exists among researchers that birds evolved from coelurosaurian theropods, paleontologists still debate the identification of the group of coelurosaurians that most closely approaches the common ancestor of birds. The last 20 years witnessed the discovery of a wide array of avian-like...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2013
Non-mammalian synapsids were the dominant terrestrial vertebrates from the Late Carboniferous to the Middle Triassic and play a key role in understanding the origin and evolution of mammals. Despite these facts and the outstanding fossil record of the group, early synapsids remain obscure. This book...
Paleontology and Geology of Laetoli: Human Evolution in Context
Volume 2: Fossil Hominins and the Associated Fauna
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2011
This volume 2 and its companion volume 1 present the results of new investigations into the geology, paleontology and paleoecology of the early hominin site of Laetoli in northern Tanzania. The site is one of the most important paleontological and paleoanthropological sites in Africa, worldrenowned...
The Trace-Fossil Record of Major Evolutionary Events
Volume 1: Precambrian and Paleozoic
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
This volume addresses major evolutionary changes that took place during the Ediacaran and the Paleozoic. These include discussions on the nature of Ediacaran ecosystems, as well as the ichnologic signature of evolutionary radiations, such as the Cambrian explosion and the Great Ordovician biodiversification...
Late Cainozoic Floras of Iceland
15 Million Years of Vegetation and Climate History in the Northern North Atlantic
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2011
Being the only place in the northern North Atlantic yielding late Cainozoic terrestrial sediments rich in plant fossils, Iceland provides a unique archive for vegetation and climate development in this region. This book includes the complete plant fossil record from Iceland spanning the past 15 million...
by Charles Lyell
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
Charles Lyell's argument in this classic volume is that the processes of nature are slow and uniform, and that the Earth is in consequence hundreds of millions of years old. This work includes his prediction that if our nearest relatives are great apes, then the places to look for human fossils will be central Africa and Indonesia.
by Robert J. Braidwood
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
Author Robert J. Braidwood writes a excellent history of early man.
The Dodo and the Solitaire
A Natural History
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2012
This account of two extinct bird species offers “an amazing amount of history, references, facts, maps, and illustrations”****(Library Journal).
The Dodo and the Solitaire is the most comprehensive book to date about these two famously extinct birds. It contains all the known contemporary...
by George P. Hansen
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2009
A photographic guide to Oklahomas Devonian trilobites. The geological history of Coal County, Oklahoma. Descriptions of rock formations where trilobites are found. Excavation and restoration of trilobites. A photographic atlas of the Lower Devonian trilobites of Oklahoma, with helpful information...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2012
In 1878, the first complete dinosaur skeleton was discovered in a coal mine in Bernissart, Belgium. Iguanodon, first described by Gideon Mantell on the basis of fragments discovered in England in 1824, was initially reconstructed as an iguana-like reptile or a heavily built, horned quadruped. However,...
People, Plants, and Landscapes
Studies in Paleoethnobotany
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 1997
People, Plants, and Landscapes showcases the potential of modern paleoethnobotany, an interdisciplinary field that explores the interactions between human beings and plants by examining archaeological evidence. Using different methods and theoretical approaches, the essays in this work apply botanical...
African Dinosaurs Unearthed
The Tendaguru Expeditions
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2003
From 1907 to 1931 at Tendaguru, a remote site in present-day Tanzania, teams of German (and later British) paleontologists unearthed 220 tons of fossils, including the bones of a new dinosaur, one of the largest then known. For decades the mounted skeleton of this giant, Brachiosaurus, was the largest...