Автор: Witton Mark P. Название: Life Through the Ages II: Twenty-First Century Visions of Prehistory ISBN: 0253048117 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780253048110 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 23410.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
What was life like on our planet long before the early humans emerged?
Paleontologist Dr. Mark P. Witton draws on the latest twenty-first century discoveries to re-create the appearances and lifestyles of extinct, fascinating species, the environments they inhabited, and the challenges they faced living on an ever-changing planet. A worthy successor to Charles Knight's beloved 1946 classic, Life through the Ages II takes us on an unforgettable journey through the evolution of life on Earth.
Dozens of gorgeous color illustrations and meticulously researched, accompanying commentary showcase the succession of lost worlds, defining events, and ancient creatures that have appeared since the earth was formed, creating an indispensable guide to explore what came before us.
Автор: Steyer S?bastien, Steyer S. Bastien, Steyer Sebast Название: Earth Before the Dinosaurs ISBN: 0253223806 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780253223807 Издательство: Wiley EDC Рейтинг: Цена: 45760.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This beautiful volume introduces the incredible animals that populated the planet before the Age of the Dinosaurs. Readers voyage to a time, beginning about 370 million years ago, when the first four-footed vertebrates appeared, and ending 200 million years later at the moment when the dinosaurs begin their ascent. During this time, vertebrates emerge from the sea and there appears a parade of animals, each more astonishing than the last. On this expedition, we learn how paleontologists become detectives to understand the history of life and we discover that many widely held ideas about the evolution of species are completely false. Earth before the Dinosaurs is an entertaining and informative guide to an astonishing and little-known world.
Revised, updated, and expanded with the latest interpretations and fossil discoveries, the second edition of Oceans of Kansas adds new twists to the fascinating story of the vast inland sea that engulfed central North America during the Age of Dinosaurs. Giant sharks, marine reptiles called mosasaurs, pteranodons, and birds with teeth all flourished in and around these shallow waters. Their abundant and well-preserved remains were sources of great excitement in the scientific community when first discovered in the 1860s and continue to yield exciting discoveries 150 years later. Michael J. Everhart vividly captures the history of these startling finds over the decades and re-creates in unforgettable detail these animals from our distant past and the world in which they lived--above, within, and on the shores of America's ancient inland sea.
Автор: Leonardi Giuseppe, Souza Carvalho Ismar Название: Dinosaur Tracks from Brazil: A Lost World of Gondwana ISBN: 0253057221 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780253057228 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 71060.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание:
Dinosaur Tracks from Brazil is the first full-length study of dinosaurs in Brazil. Some 500 dinosaur trackways from the Late Cretaceous period still remain in the Rio do Peixe basins of Brazil, making it one of the largest trackways in the world. Veteran paleontologists Giuseppe Leonardi and Ismar de Souza Carvalho painstakingly document and analyze each track found at thirty-seven individual sites and at approximately 96 stratigraphic levels.
Richly illustrated and containing a wealth of data, Leonardi and de Souza Carvalho brilliantly reconstruct the taxonomic groups of the dinosaurs from the area and show how they moved across the alluvial fans, meandering rivers, and shallow lakes of ancient Gondwana.
Dinosaur Tracks from Brazil is essential reading for paleontologists.
Автор: Farina Richard A., Vizcaino Sergio F., De Iuliis G Название: Megafauna: Giant Beasts of Pleistocene South America ISBN: 0253002303 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780253002303 Издательство: Wiley EDC Рейтинг: Цена: 61770.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: More than 10,000 years ago spectacularly large mammals roamed the pampas and jungles of South America. This book tells the story of these great beasts during and just after the Pleistocene, the geological epoch marked by the great ice ages. Megafauna describes the history and way of life of these animals, their comings and goings, and what befell them at the beginning of the modern era and the arrival of humans. It places these giants within the context of the other mammals then alive, describing their paleobiology—how they walked; how much they weighed; their diets, behavior, biomechanics; and the interactions among them and with their environment. It also tells the stories of the scientists who contributed to our discovery and knowledge of these transcendent creatures and the environment they inhabited. The episode known as the Great American Biotic Interchange, perhaps the most important of all natural history "experiments," is also an important theme of the book, tracing the biotic events of both North and South America that led to the fauna and the ecosystems discussed in this book.
Автор: Sreepat Jain Название: Fundamentals of invertebrate palaeontology. ISBN: 8132236564 ISBN-13(EAN): 9788132236566 Издательство: Springer Цена: 139750.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This book provides practical morphological information, together with detailed illustrations and concise texts explaining each entry. The book details the morphological characters of each organism, providing fundamental information for palaeontologists and palaeobiologists alike. Each chapter starts with a brief introduction and goes on to describe the organism’s morphology in detail, followed by a brief note on classification and lastly illustrated examples of stratigraphically important organisms through time along with their major distinguishing characters. The book includes over 3000 clearly labelled, hand-drawn and classroom-friendly illustrations of over 1200 species.
Автор: Benton Michael J Название: Vertebrate Palaeontology ISBN: 1118406842 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781118406847 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 51690.00 T Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ. Описание: Vertebrate palaeontology is a lively field, with new discoveries reported every week and not only dinosaurs! This new edition reflects the international scope of vertebrate palaeontology, with a special focus on exciting new finds from China. A key aim is to explain the science. Gone are the days of guesswork.
Автор: Donald F. Glut Название: Dinosaurs: The Encyclopedia, Supplement 4 ISBN: 1476689032 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781476689036 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 109030.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание: The fourth supplement to Dinosaurs: The Encyclopedia. This volume updates the concepts discussed in the encyclopedia and its earlier supplements. It includes a discussion of the Mesozoic Era, covers recent discoveries in paleontology, and furthers the ectothermy/endothermy debate from previous installments.
Автор: Glut Donald F. Название: Dinosaurs: The Encyclopedia, Supplement 2 ISBN: 1476689016 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781476689012 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 109030.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: The second supplement to Dinosaurs: The Encyclopedia. It follows the intent and format of the encyclopedia and first supplement. This continuation of what is now the standard encyclopedia provides up-to-date concepts and evidence of dinosaur paleobiology and evolution.
Автор: Daniel Dela Torre Название: Paleobotany ISBN: 1773612980 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781773612980 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 155230.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Written at a high scientific level and at the same time quite popular, this book will undoubtedly be useful to anyone who is interested in the distant past of our planet. The book covers a wide range of issues. It tells about the most ancient plants and modern subtle methods of studying them.
Автор: Joseph Petsche Название: Prehistoric Life: An Examination of the History of Life and Evolution ISBN: 1793513007 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781793513007 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 125360.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Prehistoric Life: An Examination of the History of Life and Evolution is a concise, accessible textbook focusing on the history of life and evolution within geological and climatic contexts.The book begins with an introduction to the notion of science, the scientific method, and the limits of science. In the first half of the text, students learn about rocks, fossils, the geologic timescale, the structure of earth, abiogenesis, evolution, and classification.The second half of the book is devoted to exploring the past 3.8 billion years of life, from the earliest single-celled organisms in the Precambrian Eon through the rich evolutionary histories of the Paleozoic, Mesozoic, and Cenozoic Eras, to today's modern organisms, including ourselves.The third edition has been updated to include new research and findings, including the reclassification of the T-Rex. The text includes new and updated pedagogical features, including key words, figure captions, photos, chapter summaries, and study points throughout the text at key intervals.Prehistoric Life is an ideal for courses in introductory courses in geology, biology, and paleontology.
How can the tracks of dinosaurs best be interpreted and used to reconstruct them? In many Mesozoic sedimentary rock formations, fossilized footprints of bipedal, three-toed (tridactyl) dinosaurs are preserved in huge numbers, often with few or no skeletons. Such tracks sometimes provide the only clues to the former presence of dinosaurs, but their interpretation can be challenging: How different in size and shape can footprints be and yet have been made by the same kind of dinosaur? How similar can they be and yet have been made by different kinds of dinosaurs? To what extent can tridactyl dinosaur footprints serve as proxies for the biodiversity of their makers?
Profusely illustrated and meticulously researched, Noah's Ravens quantitatively explores a variety of approaches to interpreting the tracks, carefully examining within-species and across-species variability in foot and footprint shape in nonavian dinosaurs and their close living relatives. The results help decipher one of the world's most important assemblages of fossil dinosaur tracks, found in sedimentary rocks deposited in ancient rift valleys of eastern North America. Those often beautifully preserved tracks were among the first studied by paleontologists, and they were initially interpreted as having been made by big birds--one of which was jokingly identified as Noah's legendary raven.
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