About 320 million years ago a group of reptiles known as the synapsids emerged and forever
Around 370 million years ago, a distant relative of a modern lungfish began a most
“Though biogeographical patterns take a backseat to the grand narrative of descent, as
PALEOECOLOGYPast, Present and
Despite their fame and reputation, dinosaurs represent only half the story of the Mesozoic
Praise for the first edition:
"A gift to serious dinosaur enthusiasts"
What can we learn about the evolution of jaws from a pair of scissors? How does the flight
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
Georgia’s territory represents a real “natural geological laboratory,” exposing magmatic,
Stephen Jay Gould borrowed from Winston Churchill when he described the conodont animal as
Revised, updated, and expanded with the latest interpretations and fossil discoveries, the
How can the tracks of dinosaurs best be interpreted and used to
Where do turtles hail from? Why and how did they acquire shells? These questions have
This monograph describes early Ordovician (Ibexian: Tremadocian–early Floian)
Institutional abbreviations 3
Geological setting
One wants to preserve history.
Another seeks
