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200 14$aThe beginning of the age of mammals /$fKenneth D. Rose
205   $a1st ed.
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""
330   $aThe life's work of one of the most knowledgeable researchers in the field, this richly illustrated, magisterial book combines sound scientific principles and meticulous research and belongs on the shelf of every paleontologist and mammalogist.
606   $aPaleontology$yCenozoic
606   $aMammals$xHistory
606   $aMammals$xEvolution
606   $aLife$xOrigin
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615  0$aMammals$xHistory.
615  0$aMammals$xEvolution.
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