Prehistoric Life / / Percy E. Raymond.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP e-dition: Complete eBook Package
• VerfasserIn: Raymond, Percy E.,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013]; ©1947
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Edition: 5th printing 1967. Reprint 2014
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (324 p.) :; 156 illustrations
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; INTRODUCTION --; GEOLOGICAL TIMETABLE --; I. FOSSILS --; II. COLLECTING FOSSILS --; III. THE FIRST ANIMALS AND PLANTS --; IV. PRE—CAMBRIAN LIFE --; V. THE ORDOVICIAN FAUNA --; VI. PETRIFIED BUTTERFLIES --; VII. THE AQUATIC ARACHNIDS --; VIII. THE RADIATES --; IX. THE BEGINNINGS OF THE CHORDATES --; X. THE ORIGIN OF THE VERTEBRATES --; XI. THE RISE OF THE AIR—BREATHING VERTEBRATES --; XII. AMPHIBIA, THE FIRST TETRAPODS --; XIII. THE FIRST REPTILES --; XIV. THE TERRIBLE LIZARDS --; XV. MORE ABOUT DINOSAURS --; XVI. MARINE REPTILES --; XVII. FLYING REPTILES --; XVIII. FROM SCALES TO FEATHERS --; XIX. SQUIDS, DEVILFISH, AND CHAMBERED SHELLS --; XX. INSECTS: THE FIRST AVIATORS --; XXI. ARCHAIC MAMMALS --; XXII. THE MAMMALS INHERIT THE EARTH --; XXIII. BEASTS OF PREY --; XXIV. VEGETARIANS SEIZE THEIR OPPORTUNITY --; XXV. SOME GENEALOGIES --; XXVI. MAMMALS OF YESTERDAY --; XXVII. THE ANCESTRY OF MAN --; XXVIII. THE IMPORTANCE OF PLANTS --; XXIX. RETROSPECT AND PROSPECT --; INDEX
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674429994; 9783110353488; 9783110353556; 9783110442212
• DOI: 10.4159/harvard.9780674429994
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Percy E. Raymond.