Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution
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Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution is an advanced textbook on vertebrate paleontology
by Robert L. Carroll
, published by WH Freeman. It provides a very detailed technical account of various groups of living and fossil vertebrates.
The book, which is written in the style of Alfred Sherwood Romer's Vertebrate Paleontology
, presents the most recent overall coverage of this subject. At the rear of the book is a 53-page Classification list which lists every genus
known at the time of publication, along with locality and stratigraphic range.
Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution appeared in print in 1988, just before the cladistic taxonomy became popular in vertebrate paleontology. The books thus uses the classical systematic scheme, including a number of paraphyletic taxa that are not recognised under phylogenetic nomenclature
.
Vertebrate paleontology
Vertebrate paleontology is a large subfield to paleontology seeking to discover the behavior, reproduction and appearance of extinct animals with vertebrae or a notochord, through the study of their fossilized remains...
by Robert L. Carroll
Robert L. Carroll
Robert Lynn Carroll is a vertebrate paleontologist who specialises in Paleozoic and Mesozoic amphibians and reptiles.Carroll was an only child and grew up on a farm near Lansing, Michigan...
, published by WH Freeman. It provides a very detailed technical account of various groups of living and fossil vertebrates.
The book, which is written in the style of Alfred Sherwood Romer's Vertebrate Paleontology
Vertebrate Paleontology (Romer)
Vertebrate Paleontology is an advanced textbook on vertebrate paleontology by Alfred Sherwood Romer, published by the University of Chicago Press. It went through three editions and for many years constituted a very authoritative work and the definitive coverage of the subject. A condensed...
, presents the most recent overall coverage of this subject. At the rear of the book is a 53-page Classification list which lists every genus
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
known at the time of publication, along with locality and stratigraphic range.
Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution appeared in print in 1988, just before the cladistic taxonomy became popular in vertebrate paleontology. The books thus uses the classical systematic scheme, including a number of paraphyletic taxa that are not recognised under phylogenetic nomenclature
Phylogenetic nomenclature
Phylogenetic nomenclature or phylogenetic taxonomy is an alternative to rank-based nomenclature, applying definitions from cladistics . Its two defining features are the use of phylogenetic definitions of biological taxon names, and the lack of obligatory ranks...
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