Prehistoric Life /

Prehistoric Life / / Percy E. Raymond.

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP e-dition: Complete eBook Package
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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (324 p.) :; 156 illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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