Palaeontology

Though the pygmy hippopotamus has been designated as a flagship species of West African forests (meaning that by raising conservation efforts for a single species, an entire ecological region could benefit), very little research has been published on the animal.

The Quaternary comprises a brief time in the Earth's history, and apart from a few exceptions, molluscan assemblages recovered from exposures along the coast of Southwestern South America (Southern Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina) are essentially the same than those that inhabit the region today, leading to the assumption that no important change in the distribution of the faunas since Pleistocene times has occurred.

Sauropodomorpha Huene 1932 is one of the most successful groups of dinosaurs, including the most abundant and diverse herbivorous forms with a worldwide record, extending from the late Triassic to the late Cretaceous.

This book is a condensed summary of a broad spectrum of the geological heritage of the Middle Atlas.

Secrets of the Manatee offers a fascinating look at Florida's most mysterious marine creature.

A comprehensive natural history of one of Britain's favourite animalsThe badger has for many years occupied a unique place in the British consciousness.

This book is devoted to 250 years of collecting, organizing and preserving paleontological specimens by generations of scientists.

This volume presents an array of different case studies which take as primary material data sourced from the NOW ('New and Old Worlds') database of fossil mammals.

This volume presents the latest science on all significant geological and paleontological aspects of the Earth during the Late Triassic Period.

Die Kurze Geschichte der Geologie und Paläontologie beschreibt die Entwicklung des Wissenschaftsgebietes von der Antike bis heute, die vor allem durch die jüngsten technischen Errungenschaften deutlich beschleunigt wurde.

Paleopalynology, second edition, provides profusely illustrated treatment of fossil palynomorphs, including spores, pollen, dinoflagellate cysts, acritarchs, chitinozoans, scolecodonts, and various microscopic fungal and algal dispersal bodies.

One of the most intriguing paleobiogeographical phenomena involving the origins and gradual sundering of Gondwana concerns the close similarities and, in most cases, inferred sister-group relationships of a number of terrestrial and freshwater vertebrate taxa, e.

 This book offers insight into the relationship between prehistoric and protohistoric human populations and the world around them.

Paleobiologist Anthony D.

This volume details the function of hydrocarbon seeps, their evolution over time, the most important seep occurrences and the fauna present in ancient hydrocarbon seeps.

One of the most important questions we can ask about life is "e;Does ecology matter?

Through the original writings and photography of renowned geologist Harold Rollin Wanless, this book paints a thorough and engaging picture of the White River Badlands' landscape, geology, biology, pioneer settlers, and how life was lived 100 years ago in a harsh, challenging, remote setting.

Ichnology is the science of marks, tracks, trails, traces structures and other sources of evidence of biological activity, beyond the living beings themselves, when studied both in continents and oceans.

A discussion and description of prehistoric fish within an international series Material of six osteolepiform genera is described in Morphology, Phylogeny and Taxonomy of Osteolepiform Fish.

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.

We review using iodine incorporated in calcium carbonate (including biogenic) minerals as a proxy for dissolved oxygen in seawater.

A detailed exploration of the variety of threats that endangered species are facing around the world, whether they are due to human impact or so-called natural causes.

"e;A paleontological odyssey that manages to be informative, witty, educational-and enormous fun.

This volume discusses the aspects of a phylogenetic analysis that go beyond basic calculation of most parsimonious trees.

Highly recommended by CHOICE, Oct 2018Extremophiles are nature's ultimate survivors, thriving in environments ranging from the frozen Antarctic to abyssal hot hydrothermal vents.

This volume contains a range of topics from quaternary vertebrate palaeontology in Argentina and biostratigraphy of uppermost Cenozoic in the Pampas.

Comprising the first definitive account of the geological and palaeometeorological studies made by the British geologist, Frederic W.

The Neoproterozoic Era (1000-542 million years ago) is a geological period of dramatic climatic change and important evolutionary innovations.

South America is a unique place where a number of past climate archives are ava- able from tropical to high latitude regions.

This is a new and completely rewritten edition of the well-known text Microfossils (first published in 1980) covering all the major microfossil groups, with information on taxonomy, phylogeny, ecology and palaeoecology.

Der Klimawandel ist einer der Hauptgründe für den prognostizierten weiterenRückgang der weltweiten Biodiversität.

The high-resolution palynological study of the varved sediments of Lake Montcortes has provided a unique record of the regional vegetation shifts over the last 3000 years and of the natural and anthropogenic drivers of ecological change, unparalleled in the Mediterranean.

Invertebrate Palaeontology and Evolution is well established as the foremost palaeontology text at the undergraduate level.

This book provides an important reference guide to pollen and spore identification for Chinese Quaternary palynological studies.

The molecular and genomic underpinning for the echinoderm fossil record.

Fully updated and beautifully illustrated, this leading textbook teaches science and non-science majors to think like a scientist.

This book is the second volume of an edited work aiming to help novice geologists to explore terrains independently.

On the basis of thermodynamic considerations and the Earth's historical processes, this book argues the physical inevitability of life's generation and evolution, i.

This book broadens readers' understanding of the stratigraphic framework and structural styles for improved hydrocarbon prospectivity in the intermediate and deeper horizons of the eastern Coastal Swamp Depo-belt of Nigeria's Niger Delta Basin.

Belemniten (Donnerkeile, Teufelsfinger) waren räuberische Kopffüßler, die im Jura die Weltmeere besiedelt haben.

Highlighting the latest research on Actualistic Taphonomy (AT), this book presents the outcomes of a meeting that took place in Montevideo, Uruguay, in October 2017.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the taxonomy, biology, sedimentation, and carbonate geochemistry of modern species.

Reviews the history of triple isotope effects and the major recent developments in triple oxygen isotope research.

Remains of fossil frogs, elsewhere scarce, have been found abundantly for more than one hundred and twenty five years in the Tertiary deposits in northern and western Bohemia.

This atlas presents a concrete tool to identify xylophagous activity by the remains they left in wooded areas in Western Europe.

The Cenozoic history of South America faunas mainly rests on the evidence yielded by the study of fossil mammals.

How scientists are unravelling one of the most tantalizing questions in paleontologyOur understanding of dinosaur behavior has long been hampered by the inevitable lack of evidence from animals that went extinct more than sixty-five million years ago and whose daily behaviors are rarely reflected by the fossil record.