Paläontologie

About 320 million years ago a group of reptiles known as the synapsids emerged and forever

Vertebrate life's emergence from the

“Though biogeographical patterns take a backseat to the grand narrative of descent, as

DAVID J. BOTTJER is Professor of Earth Sciences, Biological Sciences,

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Preface
1. Shadows in the Rain:

M. K. Brett-Surman is Museum Specialist at the National Museum of Natural History of the

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This book presents the diversity of Dinosaur tracks found in Mesozoic basins in Brazil and

Virtual palaeontology, the use of interactive three-dimensional digital models as a

The story of an unsolved paleontological

DAVID J. BOTTJER is Professor of Earth Sciences, Biological Sciences,

Revised, updated, and expanded with the latest interpretations and fossil discoveries, the

James O. Farlow is Emeritus Professor of Geology at Indiana–Purdue

Olivier Rieppel is Rowe Family Curator of Evolutionary Biology at the Field Museum in

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Geological setting

Institutional abbreviations 3

Geological setting

One wants to preserve history.

Another seeks

This book is designed as an easy night's read and introduction to fossil soils and the

James O. Farlow is Emeritus Professor of Geology at Indiana–Purdue

“Though biogeographical patterns take a backseat to the grand narrative of descent, as