Palaeontology category: 374 books
The Rise of Marine Mammals
50 Million Years of Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
Marine mammals have long captured the attention of humans. Ancient peoples etched seals and dolphins on the walls of Paleolithic caves; today, engineers develop microprocessors to track these denizens of the deep. This groundbreaking book from highly respected marine mammal paleontologist Annalisa...
Palaeoclimates and their Modelling
With special reference to the Mesozoic era
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The climate of the Earth has undergone many changes and for those times when geologic data are widespread and abundant the Mesozoic appears to have been one of the warmest intervals. This was a time during which the single continent Pangea disintegrated into continental units similar to those of today,...
by David J. Cantrill, Imogen Poole
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2012
The fossil history of plant life in Antarctica is central to our understanding of the evolution of vegetation through geological time and also plays a key role in reconstructing past configurations of the continents and associated climatic conditions. This book provides the only detailed overview...
by Gerald Mayr
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2009
In the present book the Paleogene fossil record of birds is detailed for the first time on a worldwide scale. I have developed the idea for such a project for several years, and think that it is an appropriate moment to present a summary of our c- rent knowledge of the early evolution of modern birds....
The Origin of Higher Taxa
Palaeobiological, Developmental, and Ecological Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
In the grand sweep of evolution, the origin of radically new kinds of organisms in the fossil record is the result of a relatively simple process: natural selection marching through the ages. Or is it? Does Darwinian evolution acting over a sufficiently long period of time really offer a complete...
Adventures in the Bone Trade
The Race to Discover Human Ancestors in Ethiopia’s Afar Depression
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2006
As co-founder of the expedition that discovered Lucy, and leader of most of the first site-surveys in the Afar Depression in Ethiopia, Jon Kalb has years of experience with the region, its politics, and the scientists involved in the excavations. A participant himself in the "bone wars"...
by Rituparna Bose
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2012
Carbonate depositional systems in the Paleozoic geologic time represent fewer studies in paleoecological interactions than the siliciclastic systems. To evaluate this difference, the paleontology of the Middle Devonian Dundee Formation in Ohio has been explored. This geologic formation represents...
Atlas of Taphonomic Identifications
1001+ Images of Fossil and Recent Mammal Bone Modification
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
The aim of the atlas is to provide images of taphonomic modifications, making it as comprehensive as possible with evidence presently available. This volume is intended both as a field guide for identifying taphonomic modifications in the field, and for use in the laboratory when collections of fossils...
Receptaculitids
A Phylogenetic Debate on a Problematic Fossil Taxon
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Receptaculitids are extinct high-level fossils that provide a window into the history of life. After the discovery and analysis of a deposit of phosphatized receptaculitids on the Baltic Sea island of Öland, the authors conclude that receptaculitids possess an attribute not found in any other group of organisms, living or fossil.
Ichnology
Organism-Substrate Interactions in Space and Time
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2011
Ichnology is the study of traces created in the substrate by living organisms. This is the first book to systematically cover basic concepts and applications in both paleobiology and sedimentology, bridging the gap between the two main facets of the field. It emphasizes the importance of understanding...
by Matías Reolid, José Miguel Molina, Luis Miguel Nieto
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
This book presents the first overview of the Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event in the southern Iberian paleomargin, in the western Tethys. The study of catastrophic events that affected the ecosystems in the past is of great interest, because it offers the possibility of establishing models that can be...
by Ross Jones
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
Among Tasmania’s earthly treasures are the spectacular but little known fossil ferns from Lune River. Complex geological forces combined to preserve the trunks of ferns and other plants growing in a Jurassic forest here 180 million years ago. Rockhounds in the 1950s and 60s began to uncover an unusual...
Early Miocene Paleobiology in Patagonia
High-Latitude Paleocommunities of the Santa Cruz Formation
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
Coastal exposures of the Santa Cruz Formation in southern Patagonia have been a fertile ground for recovery of Early Miocene vertebrates for more than 100 years. This volume presents a comprehensive compilation of important mammalian groups which continue to thrive today. It includes the most recent...
The White River Badlands
Geology and Paleontology
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2015
The forbidding Big Badlands in Western South Dakota contain the richest fossil beds in the world. Even today these rocks continue to yield new specimens brought to light by snowmelt and rain washing away soft rock deposited on a floodplain long ago. The quality and quantity of the fossils are superb:...