The Age of ReptilesCourier Corporation, 18 de mar. de 1997 - 252 páginas Concise detailed review — amply illustrated — of the astonishing creatures that ruled the earth for some 180 million years, with particular emphasis on the tetrapods (four-legged vertebrates that lived during the years of reptilian dominance). Also examines interrelationships between amphibians and reptiles, birds and mammals, and between these creatures and their environments. |
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Time Tetrapods and Fossils | 1 |
Beginning of the Age of Reptiles | 33 |
Early Reptilian Rulers of the Land | 49 |
The Transition | 64 |
Supremacy of the Reptiles | 86 |
The First Wave of Extinction | 106 |
New Ruling Reptiles | 116 |
Dominance of the Dinosaurs | 130 |
A New World Foreshadowed | 147 |
Zenith of the Dinosaurs | 161 |
The Great Extinction | 191 |
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abundant Age of Reptiles amphibians amphibians and reptiles ancestors animals Asia Beaufort Belly River birds bones Carboniferous carnivores continental continents cotylosaurs Cretaceous history Cretaceous period crocodiles crocodilians deposits dicynodonts dominant early Cretaceous earth history Europe evidence evolution evolutionary extinction fauna feet in length Figure fishes flying reptiles formation fossil record genera geologic giant groups herbivores horned dinosaurs ichthyosaurs ictidosaurs jaws Keuper labyrinthodont Lance land land-living late Cretaceous late Jurassic late Triassic lived lizards lower Cretaceous Lower Jurassic lower Permian Lower Triassic Lystrosaurus mammal-like reptiles mammals marine reptiles Mesozoic middle Triassic modern Morrison North America northern nothosaurs numbers oceans ornithischian Paleozoic pareiasaurs pelycosaurs perhaps Permian phytosaurs placodonts plesiosaurs primitive pseudosuchians pterosaurs region reptilian rhynchocephalians rhynchosaurs rocks saurischian sauropods saurs seas sediments skeleton skull South Africa southern SUBCLASS teeth tetrapods thecodonts therapsids Triassic history Triassic period tritylodonts tropical turtles upper Cretaceous upper Jurassic upper Triassic vertebrates zone
