Evolutionary history of the marsupials and an analysis of osteological characters /

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Author / Creator:Szalay, Frederick S.
Imprint:Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1994.
Description:xii, 481 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1564383
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ISBN:0521441692 (hc)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • 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