LEADER 04186nam 2200625Ia 450 001 9910453900803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8018-9221-X 035 $a(CKB)1000000000720476 035 $a(EBL)3318384 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000109872 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11133541 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000109872 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10059675 035 $a(PQKB)11518506 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3318384 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3318384 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10256387 035 $a(OCoLC)923193122 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000720476 100 $a20060308d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe beginning of the age of mammals$b[electronic resource] /$fKenneth D. Rose 210 $aBaltimore $cJohns Hopkins University Press$d2006 215 $a1 online resource (448 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8018-8472-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [349]-397) and index. 327 $a""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""1 Introduction""; ""THE EARLY CENOZIC MAMMALIAN RADIATION""; ""TIMING OF THE CROWN-THERIAN RADIATION""; ""MAMMALIAN PHYLOGENY, INTERRELATIONSHIPS, AND CLASSIFICATION""; ""GEOCHRONOLOGY AND BIOCHRONOLOGY OF THE EARLY CENOZOIC""; ""PALEOGEOGRAPHIC SETTING DURING THE BEGINNING OF THE AGE OF MAMMALS""; ""PALEOCENE-EOCENE CLIMATE AND FLORA""; ""ORGANIZATION OF THE VOLUME""; ""2 Mammalian Skeletal Structure and Adaptations""; ""SKULL""; ""DENTITION""; ""POSTCRANIAL SKELETON""; ""SKELETAL ADAPTATIONS""; ""3 The Origin of Mammals"" 327 $a""WHAT IS A MAMMAL?""""THE EVOLUTIONARY TRANSITION TO MAMMALS""; ""4 Synopsis of Mesozoic Mammal Evolution""; ""HISTORICAL BACKGROUND""; ""THE OLDEST MAMMALS""; ""DOCODONTA""; ""MULTITUBERCULATA""; ""EUTRICONODONTA""; ""SYMMETRODONTS""; ""EUPANTOTHERES""; ""TRIBOSPHENIC MAMMALS""; ""MESOZOIC MAMMALS OF UNCERTAIN AFFINITY""; ""5 Metatheria: Marsupials and Their Relatives""; ""BASAL METATHERIANS""; ""PRIMITIVE MARSUPIALS""; ""6 Earliest Eutherian Mammals""; ""7 Cimolesta""; ""DIDELPHODONTA AND OTHER PRIMITIVE CIMOLESTA""; ""DIDYMOCONIDAE""; ""PANTOLESTA""; ""APATOTHERIA""; ""TAENIODONTA"" 327 $a""TILLODONTIA""""PANTODONTA""; ""8 Creodonta and Carnivora""; ""CREODONTA""; ""CARNIVORA""; ""9 Insectivora""; ""LEPTICTIDA""; ""LIPOTYPHLA""; ""10 Archonta: Bats, Dermopterans, Primates, and Tree Shrews""; ""CHIROPTERA""; ""DERMOPTERA""; ""PRIMATES AND PLESIADAPIFORMES""; ""SCANDENTIA""; ""11 a???Edentates:a??? Xenarthra and Pholidota""; ""XENARTHRA""; ""PHOLIDOTA""; ""12 Archaic Ungulates""; ""OLDEST UNGULATE RELATIVES""; ""CONDYLARTHRA: ARCHAIC UNGULATES""; ""ARCTOSTYLOPIDA""; ""MERIDIUNGULATA: ENDEMIC SOUTH AMERICAN UNGULATES""; ""DINOCERATA"" 327 $a""13 Altungulata: Perissodactyls, Hyraxes, and Tethytheres""""PERISSODACTYLA""; ""PAENUNGULATA""; ""14 Cete and Artiodactyla""; ""CETE AND CETACEA""; ""ARTIODACTYLA""; ""15 Anagalida: Rodents, Lagomorphs, and Their Relatives""; ""PRIMITIVE ASIAN ANAGALIDANS AND POSSIBLE ANAGALIDANS""; ""MACROSCELIDEA""; ""GLIRES""; ""16 Reflections and Speculations on the Beginning of the Age of Mammals""; ""EARLY CENOZOIC MAMMAL RECORD""; ""SYNOPSIS OF PALEOCENE AND EOCENE MAMMALS""; ""A FINAL NOTE""; ""Literature Cited""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K"" 327 $a""L""""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""X""; ""Y""; ""Z"" 606 $aPaleontology$yCenozoic 606 $aMammals$xHistory 606 $aMammals$xEvolution 606 $aLife$xOrigin 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aPaleontology 615 0$aMammals$xHistory. 615 0$aMammals$xEvolution. 615 0$aLife$xOrigin. 676 $a569 700 $aRose$b Kenneth David$f1949-$0862284 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910453900803321 996 $aThe beginning of the age of mammals$91924847 997 $aUNINA