Palaeontology

The graptolites constitute one of the geologically most useful taxonomic groups of fossils for dating rock successions, understanding paleobiogeography and reconstructing plate tectonic configurations in the Lower Palaeozoic.

This Element presents guides to applying PCMs with fossil taxa as well as example analayses illustrating common applications.

This book represents a detailed introduction to the geology, structure, and stratigraphy of Kutch Basin, known for its rich fossilized megafauna and the wide range of condensed sections exposing Bathonian to Pleistocene.

This monograph describes early Ordovician (Ibexian: Tremadocian early Floian) trilobites from Northern Spitsbergen from the section through the Kirtonryggen Formation adjacent to Hinlopen Strait.

A unique study of Ice Age human and carnivore bone damage and its importance in understanding ancient life in Siberia.

This book is divided in two parts, the first of which shows how, beyond paleontology and systematics, macroevolutionary theories apply key insights from ecology and biogeography, developmental biology, biophysics, molecular phylogenetics and even the sociocultural sciences to explain evolution in deep time.

This Element is a call to action for broadening participation through improved classroom approaches.

Two discoveries of early human relatives, one in 1924 and one in 2003, radically changed scientific thinking about our origins.

The extended continental South American turtle record (Norian to Lujanian) allows us to follow the evolution of this reptile clade from its origins.

This book provides an updated review and criticism ofthe progress of the continental, transitional and marine Quaternarydeposits of Uruguay.

Species Problems and Beyond offers a collection of up-to-date essays discussing from an interdisciplinary perspective the many ramifications of the 'Species Problem.

This book presents both state-of-the art knowledge from Recent coral reefs (1.

The Late Neogene

Previous volumes in this 'Developments in Paleoenvironmental Research' (DPER) series have focussed on providing in-depth descriptions of palaeoenvironmental techniques or have described the applications of these approaches on various regional bases.

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This Element provides a hypothesis-driven look at testing models for diversification in Cambrian echinoderms.

Covering a large swath of the American West, the Great Basin, centered in Nevada and including parts of California, Utah, and Oregon, is named for the unusual fact that none of its rivers or streams flow into the sea.

This edited volume presents current archaeological research and data from the major early Acheulean sites in East Africa, and addresses three main areas of focus; 1) the tempo and mode of technological changes that led to the emergence of the Acheulean in East Africa; 2) new approaches to lithic collections, including lithic technology analyses; and 3) the debated coexistence of the Developed Oldowan and the early Acheulean.

Ostracods, small aquatic Crustacea, occur in almost every marine, brackish and freshwater habitat.

Two discoveries of early human relatives, one in 1924 and one in 2003, radically changed scientific thinking about our origins.

The Boids are back in town .

Relatively, a new discipline, Paleontology is the study of ancient Life forms that have inhabited our earth, and of the fossils that remain behind.

Sauropod dinosaurs were the largest animals ever to walk the earth, and they represent a substantial portion of vertebrate biomass and biodiversity during the Mesozoic Era.

These proceedings contain selected papers from the Special Symposium, organised by the Argentine Association of Geomorphology and Quaternary Studies in October 2017.

This book broadens the reader's knowledge base on lithofacies distribution, facies succession and association, and interpretation of paleo-depositional environments using outcrop-based and measured se dimentologic section data integrated with facies and petrographic analyses.

A scientific excursion into folklore, zoology, and cryptozoology, this text highlights a field, often called a pseudoscience, which seriously considers the possible existence of hidden or unknown animals not recognised in conventional zoology.

This book addresses the main enigmas of Easter Island's (Rapa Nui, in the Polynesian language) prehistory from the time of initial settlement to European contact with a multidisciplinary perspective.

While much attention has been given to animal life in amber, the remains of a variety of plants, including angiosperm flowers, also exist in fossilized resin.

This Element summarizes decades of research concerning the homology hypotheses structures of Echinodermata.

The most authoritative illustrated book on flying reptiles availableFor 150 million years, the skies didn't belong to birdsthey belonged to the pterosaurs.

This two-volume edited book highlights and reviews the potential of the fossil record to calibrate the origin and evolution of parasitism, and the techniques to understand the development of parasite-host associations and their relationships with environmental and ecological changes.

Biogeography is a vital component in many aspects of Primatology, including studies of evolution, speciation systematics, population genetics, and community ecology.

This book provides practical morphological information, together with detailed illustrations and concise texts explaining each entry.

Innovation and creativity are two of the key characteristics that distinguish cultural transmission from biological transmission.

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The celebrated lower Cambrian Chengjiang biota of Yunnan Province, China, represents one of the most significant ever paleontological discoveries.

The celebrated lower Cambrian Chengjiang biota of Yunnan Province, China, represents one of the most significant ever paleontological discoveries.

A fully updated and expanded edition of the acclaimed, bestselling dinosaur field guideThe bestselling Princeton Field Guide to Dinosaurs remains the must-have book for anyone who loves dinosaurs, from amateur enthusiasts to professional paleontologists.

The emphasis in this volume is on the structure and functional design of the integument.

Radiogenic Isotopes Applied to Mineral Exploration: A Practical Guide assists mineral exploration geologists, students and professors in the field of metallogeny and ore deposits.

The authors have done an outstanding job of compiling decades of data collected by their own field reconnaissance and other geoscientists.

Published in 1913: The object of the present work is to throw some light on the theory of Descent.

The study of paleopathology has two very different constituencies, the medical scientist and the zoologist/paleontologist/anthropologist.

From the Preface: The chapters of this book contain contributions from an international group of specialists.

"e;Close-up views of endangered fauna in their natural habitats are difficult enough to obtain, but the breathtaking artistic quality of the photography in this valuable documentation of Asia's disappearing forest habitats makes this book highly recommended for both scientists and nature lovers alike.

This book provides essential information on 12 cockroach assemblages with more than a thousand specimens analyzed and investigates the Jurassic site in Bakhar, Mongolia, as one of the most diverse fossil insect sites worldwide.

"e;There is no branch of detective science which is so important and so much neglected as the art of tracing footsteps.