Evolutionary history of the marsupials and an analysis of osteological characters / Frederick S. Szalay.
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TextPublication details: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1994.Description: xii, 481 p. : ill. ; 26 cmISBN: - 9780521025928
- 599.2 23 Sz996
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 429-453) and index.
Preface;
1. Introduction;
2. Phylogenetics of characters and groups, and the classification of taxa;
3. Problems in understanding metatherian evolution;
4. Form-function, and ecological and behavioural morphology in Metatheria;
5. Background to the analysis of metatherian cruropedal evidence;
6. Mesozoic and Cenozoic: fossil tarsals of ameridelphians unassociated with teeth;
7. Cruropedal attributes of living and fossil families of metatherians;
8. Taxa and phylogeny of Metatheria;
9. Paleobiogeography and metatherian evolution;
References;
Index.
This book examines a variety of problems in the understanding of the evolutionary history of the marsupials.
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