03033nam 2200697Ia 450 991082065100332120230725033429.01-280-77261-197866136833800-253-00537-X(CKB)2670000000205679(EBL)670294(SSID)ssj0000580793(PQKBManifestationID)11366098(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000580793(PQKBWorkID)10612535(PQKB)11028955(MiAaPQ)EBC670294(OCoLC)802053887(MdBmJHUP)muse20045(Au-PeEL)EBL670294(CaPaEBR)ebr10571227(CaONFJC)MIL368338(OCoLC)800991787(EXLCZ)99267000000020567920110817d2011 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrGaining ground the origin and evolution of tetrapods /Jennifer A. Clack2nd ed.Bloomington Indiana University Pressc20111 online resource (559 p.)Life of the pastDescription based upon print version of record.0-253-35675-X Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction: The Origin of Tetrapods -- Skulls and Skeletons in Transition -- Relationships and Relatives : The Lobe-Fin Family -- Setting the Scene : The Devonian World -- The First Feet : Tetrapods of the Famennian -- From Fins to Feet : Transformation and Transition -- Emerging into the Carboniferous : The First Phase -- East Kirkton and the Roots of the Modern Family Tree -- The Late Carboniferous : Expanding Horizons -- Gaining Ground : The Evolution of Terrestriality.Around 370 million years ago, a distant relative of a modern lungfish began a most extraordinary adventure-emerging from the water and laying claim to the land. Over the next 70 million years, this tentative beachhead had developed into a worldwide colonization by ever-increasing varieties of four-limbed creatures known as tetrapods, the ancestors of all vertebrate life on land. This new edition of Jennifer A. Clack's groundbreaking book tells the complex story of their emergence and evolution. Beginning with their closest relatives, the lobe-fin fishes such as lungfishes and coelacanths, CLife of the past.Amphibians, FossilLegEvolutionLungfishes, FossilPaleontologyCarboniferousPaleontologyDevonianAmphibians, Fossil.LegEvolution.Lungfishes, Fossil.PaleontologyPaleontology566Clack Jennifer A.1937-1640222MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910820651003321Gaining ground3983668UNINA