| Description |
1 online resource : color illustrations |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 232-233) and index. |
| Note |
PDF (JSTOR, viewed Oct. 11, 2016). |
| Contents |
1. The age of mammals -- 2. The origin and early evolution of mammals -- 3. Marsupials : pouched mammals -- 4. Placental mammals (Eutheria) -- 5. Xenarthra : sloths, anteaters, and armadillos -- 6. Afrotheria : elephants, hyraxes, sea cows, aardvarks, and their relatives -- 7. Euarchontoglires : Euarchonta. Primates, tree shrews, and colugos -- 8. Euarchontoglires : Glires. Rodents and lagomorphs -- 9. Laurasiatheria : insectivores. Order Eulipotyphla and other insectivorous mammals -- 10. Laurasiatheria : Chiroptera. Bats -- 11. Laurasiatheria : Pholidota. Pangolins, or "scaly anteaters" -- 12. Laurasiatheria : Carnivora and Creodonta. Predatory mammals -- 13. Laurasiatheria : Ungulata. Hoofed mammals and their relatives -- 14. Laurasiatheria : Artiodactyla. "Even-toed" hoofed mammals : pigs, hippos, whales, camels, ruminants, and their extinct relatives -- 15. Laurasiatheria : Perissodactyla. "Odd-toed" hoofed mammals : horses, rhinos, tapirs, and their extinct relatives -- 16. Laurasiatheria : Meridiungulata. South American hoofed mammals -- 17. Uintatheres, pantodonts, taeniodonts, and tillodonts -- 18. Mammalian evolution and extinction. |
| Subject |
Mammals, Fossil.
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NATURE -- Fossils.
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NATURE -- Reference.
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Mammals, Fossil. (OCoLC)fst01007026
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| Added Author |
Williams, Mary Persis, illustrator.
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| Added Title |
Prehistoric mammals |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Prothero, Donald R. Princeton field guide to prehistoric mammals. Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2017] 9780691156828 0691156824 |
| ISBN |
9781400884452 (electronic bk.) |
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1400884454 (electronic bk.) |
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9780691156828 |
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0691156824 |
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