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Author : Patricia Vickers-Rich
Publisher : Monash University Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 792 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (41 download)
Download or read book The Fossil Vertebrate Record of Australasia written by Patricia Vickers-Rich and published by Monash University Publishing. This book was released on 1983 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Patricia Vickers-Rich
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780909674366
Total Pages : 1437 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (743 download)
Download or read book Vertebrate Palaeontology of Australasia written by Patricia Vickers-Rich and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 1437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A concise account of the fossil record of vertebrates in Australasia, a region of great interest to evolutionists due to the divergence of its biota from that of other continents at an early stage.
Author : Patricia V. Rich
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (92 download)
Download or read book Vertebrate Palaeontology of Australasia written by Patricia V. Rich and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael J. Benton
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN 13 : 1405144491
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Vertebrate Palaeontology written by Michael J. Benton and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 2009-02-05 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vertebrate Palaeontology is a complete, up-to-date history of the evolution of vertebrates. The third edition of this popular text has been extensively revised to incorporate the latest research, including new material from North and South America, Australia, Europe, China, Africa and Russia. Highlights astonishing new discoveries including new dinosaurs and Mesozoic birds from China features a new chapter on how to study fossil vertebrates provides an increased emphasis on the cladistic framework with cladograms set apart from the body of the text and full lists of diagnostic characters includes new molecular evidence on early mammal diversification new features aid study including new functional and developmental feature spreads, key questions and extensive references to useful web sites strong phylogenetic focus making it an up-to-date source of the latest broad-scale systematic data on vertebrate evolution To access the artwork from the book, please visit: www.blackwellpublishing.com/benton. An Instructor manual CD-ROM for this title is available. Please contact our Higher Education team at [email protected] for more information.
Author : Michael Archer
Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
ISBN 13 : 0643108068
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (431 download)
Download or read book Prehistoric Australasia written by Michael Archer and published by CSIRO PUBLISHING. This book was released on 2023-04-03 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For most of the past 300 million years, the world’s continents were interlinked as the supercontinents Pangaea and then Gondwana. Around 50 million years ago, Australia tore itself free from Antarctica to become the huge, splendidly isolated island it is today. Over time, its creatures began to evolve in ways not seen anywhere else on Earth, with tree-climbing crocodiles, gigantic venomous lizards, walking omnivorous bats and flesh-eating kangaroos roaming the continent. Prehistoric Australasia: Visions of Evolution and Extinction presents some of the most extraordinary creatures the world has ever seen – all unique to Australia, New Guinea, New Zealand and their surrounding islands. Over 100 meticulously painted panoramas by palaeoartist Peter Schouten are accompanied by descriptions of the unique environments and features of these animals, written by four of Australia’s foremost palaeontologists. This book explores the nature and timing of extinction events in the Southern Hemisphere, considers whether some of these losses might be able to be reversed, and how we can use the fossil record to help save today’s critically endangered species. Through stunning artwork and fascinating text, Prehistoric Australasia brings this globally unique transformation over time to glorious, colourful life.
Author : John A. Long
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801872235
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (722 download)
Download or read book Prehistoric Mammals of Australia and New Guinea written by John A. Long and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diagrams showing skeletal features and tooth structure and a glossary of technical terms are included.
Author : Michael Archer
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253339140
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (391 download)
Download or read book Australia's Lost World written by Michael Archer and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Queensland, in northeast Australia, lies one of the most significant fossil deposits in the world—Riversleigh. Here, the remains of many thousands of weird and wonderful prehistoric animals have been superbly preserved in the limestone outcrops. There are marsupial lions, carnivorous kangaroos, 23-foot long pythons, primitive platypuses, and early ancestors of the now extinct Tasmanian tiger. So important is this site to our understanding of what has happened to Australia and its living cargo over the last 25 million years that Riversleigh has been inscribed on the World Heritage List. Michael Archer, Suzanne J. Hand, and Henk Godthelp, the principal scientists on a remarkable excavation since 1976, explain the vast environmental and geographic changes that have occurred in this area since Australia broke away from the supercontinent of Gondwana, and how the animals on board this continental raft evolved through the ages. Photographs and evocative artwork bring to life the teeming tropical world that once existed in the now arid wastes of Riversleigh, and the authors discuss some of the unusual techniques used on a dig. They describe how to recognize fossils, how to date them, and how to reconstruct extinct animals from them. Originally published as Riversleigh: The Story of Animals in Ancient Rainforests of Inland Australia, this award-winning book is being issued for the first time in the United States.
Author : Benjamin P Kear
Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
ISBN 13 : 0643102310
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (431 download)
Download or read book Dinosaurs in Australia written by Benjamin P Kear and published by CSIRO PUBLISHING. This book was released on 2011-04-19 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last few decades our understanding of what Australia was like during the Mesozoic Era has changed radically. A rush of new fossil discoveries, together with cutting-edge analytical techniques, has created a much more detailed picture of ancient life and environments from the great southern continent. Giant dinosaurs, bizarre sea monsters and some of the earliest ancestors of Australia’s unique modern animals and plants all occur in rocks of Mesozoic age. Ancient geographical positioning of Australia close to the southern polar circle and mounting geological evidence for near freezing temperatures also make it one of the most unusual and globally significant sources of fossils from the age of dinosaurs. This book provides the first comprehensive overview of current research on Australian Mesozoic faunas and floras, with a balanced coverage of the many technical papers, conference abstracts and unpublished material housed in current collections. It is a primary reference for researchers in the fields of palaeontology, geology and biology, senior undergraduate and postgraduate students, secondary level teachers, as well as fossil collectors and anyone interested in natural history. Dinosaurs in Australia is fully illustrated in colour with original artworks and 12 reconstructions of key animals. It has a foreword by Tim Flannery and is the ideal book for anybody seeking to know more about Australia’s amazing age of dinosaurs.
Author : Frederick Chapman
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (64 download)
Download or read book Australasian Fossils: A Students' Manual of Palaeontology written by Frederick Chapman and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-23 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Australasian Fossils: A Students' Manual of Paleontology is about the fossils that may be found in Australia and New Zealand. Contents: "I. —Nature and uses of Fossils" II. —Classification of Fossil Animals and Plants" III. —The Geological Epochs and Time-range of Fossils" IV. —How Fossils are Found, and the Rocks They Form 51 PART II.—SYSTEMATIC PALAEONTOLOGY. Chap. V. —Fossil Plants" VI. —Fossil Foraminifera and Radiolaria" VII. —Fossil Sponges, Corals and Graptolites" VIII. —Fossil Starfishes, Sea-lilies and Sea-urchins" IX. —Fossil Worms, Sea-mats and Lamp-shells" X. —Fossil Shell-fish" XI. —Fossil Trilobites, Crustacea and Insects" XII. —Fossil Fishes, Amphibians, Reptiles, Birds and Mammals."
Author : Pat Vickers Rich
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780691087337
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (873 download)
Download or read book Kadimakara written by Pat Vickers Rich and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to the traditions of some Australian Aborigines, the strange monsters known as "Kadimakara" once lived in a "roof" of vegetation over Central Australia, occasionally foraging for foods in the "lower" world. These Aborigines believed that on one occasion, when the Kadimakara's path back to their home was cut off, they were obliged to roam on earth until they died in Lake Eyre. Their bones, the Aborigines thought, became what we know as fossils. In the richly illustrated volume Kadimakara, pioneers of the bourgeoning field of Australian fossil research provide a broad overview of vertebrate history in that country. Offering a wealth of information on how palaeontologists view their own processes of interpreting what fossil animals and plants were like when alive, the book includes an essay for each of thirty-two extinct vertebrates. The work begins with an engagingly written chapter "Priest-Geologists and Knighted Explorers: A Short History of the Discovery of Vertebrate Fossils in Australia" by P. V. Rich, continues with an essay "The Stirton Years, 1953-1966" by R. H. Tedford, and goes on to a discussion of changing Australian environments throughout geological time by E. M. Truswell and G. E. Wilford. The essays on fossil vertebrates constitute the remaining two-thirds of the book.
Author : Susan Quirk
Publisher : Computer Science Press, Incorporated
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Prehistoric Animals of Australia written by Susan Quirk and published by Computer Science Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 1983 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book New Zealand Journal of Zoology written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael O. Woodburne
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520099616
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (996 download)
Download or read book Revision of the Ektopodontidae (Mammalia, Marsupialia, Phalangeroidea) of the Australian Neogene written by Michael O. Woodburne and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1986-01-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alistair Glen
Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
ISBN 13 : 064310318X
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (431 download)
Download or read book Carnivores of Australia written by Alistair Glen and published by CSIRO PUBLISHING. This book was released on 2014-11-05 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Australian continent provides a unique perspective on the evolution and ecology of carnivorous animals. In earlier ages, Australia provided the arena for a spectacular radiation of marsupial and reptilian predators. The causes of their extinctions are still the subject of debate. Since European settlement, Australia has seen the extinction of one large marsupial predator (the thylacine), another (the Tasmanian devil) is in danger of imminent extinction, and still others have suffered dramatic declines. By contrast, two recently-introduced predators, the fox and cat, have been spectacularly successful, with devastating impacts on the Australian fauna. Carnivores of Australia: Past, Present and Future explores Australia's unique predator communities from pre-historic, historic and current perspectives. It covers mammalian, reptilian and avian carnivores, both native and introduced to Australia. It also examines the debate surrounding how best to manage predators to protect livestock and native biodiversity. Readers will benefit from the most up-to-date synthesis by leading researchers and managers in the field of carnivore biology. By emphasising Australian carnivores as exemplars of flesh-eaters in other parts of the world, this book will be an important reference for researchers, wildlife managers and students worldwide.
Author : Patricia Vickers Rich
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
ISBN 13 : 0486838552
Total Pages : 763 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (868 download)
Download or read book The Fossil Book written by Patricia Vickers Rich and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2020-01-15 with total page 763 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Expanded edition of definitive guide for professionals and amateurs presents valuable information about finding, preserving, and studying fossils. Over 1,500 drawings and photographs. "Readable . . . and remarkably comprehensive." — Chicago Sunday Tribune.
Author : Ian Metcalfe
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 9789058093493
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (934 download)
Download or read book Faunal and Floral Migration and Evolution in SE Asia-Australasia written by Ian Metcalfe and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2001-06-01 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This multidisciplinary book focuses on the relationships and interactions between palaeobiogeography, biogeography, dispersal, vicariance, migrations and evolution of organisms in the SE Asia-Australasian region. The book investigates biogeographic links between SE Asia and Australasia which go back more than 500 million years. It also focuses on the links between geological evolution and biological migrations and evolution in the region. It was in the SE Asian region that Alfred Russell Wallace established his biogeographic line, now known as Wallace's Line, which was the beginning of biogeography. Wallace also independently developed his theory of evolution based on his work in this area.;The book brings together, for the first time, geologists, palaeontologists, zoologists, botanists, entomologists, evolutionary biologists and archaeologists, in the one volume, to relate the region's geological past to its present biological peculiarities. The book is organized into six sections. Section 1 Paleobiogeographic Background provides overviews of the geological and tectonic evolution of SE Asia-Australasia, and changing patterns of land and sea for the last 540 million years. Section 2 Palaeozoic and Mesozoic Geology and Biogeography discusses Palaeozoic and Mesozoic biogeography of conodonts, brachiopods, plants, dinosaurs and radiolarians and the recognition of ancient biogeographic boundaries or Wallace Lines in the region. Section 3 Wallace's Line focuses on the biogeographic boundary established by Wallace, including the history of its establishment, its significance to biogeography in general and its applicability in the context of modern biogeography.;Section 4 Plant biogeography and evolution includes discussion on primitive angiosperms, the diaspora of the southern rushes, and environmental, climatic and evolutionary implications of plants and palynomorphs in the region. The biogeography and migration of insects, butterflies, birds, rodents and other non-primate mammals is discussed in section 5, Non Primates. The final section 6 Primates focuses on the biogeographic radiation, migration and evolution of primates and includes papers on the occurrence and migration of early hominids and the requirements for human colonization of Australia.
Author : Chris Johnson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521686600
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (866 download)
Download or read book Australia's Mammal Extinctions written by Chris Johnson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-11-02 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description
