Title: In the Shadow of the Dinosaurs: Early Mesozoic Tetrapods
Abstract: Acknowledgments List of contributors Introduction Nicholas C. Fraser and Hans-Dieter Sues Part I. Phylogeny: Introduction 1. Late Triassic and Jurassic amphibians: fossil record and phylogeny Andrew Milner 2. The Lepidosauromorpha: an overview with special emphasis on the Squamata Olivier Rieppel 3. Late Triassic-Early Jurassic sphenodontians from China and the phylogeny of the Sphenodontia Xiao-chun Wu 4. Marine members of the Sphenodontia Robert L. Carroll and Rupert Wild 5. Patterns of evolution in Mesozoic Crocodyliformes James M. Clark 6. Sister-group relationships of mammals and transformations of diagnostic mammalian characters Zhexi Luo Part II. Faunal Assemblages: 7. A review of the British Middle Triassic tetrapod assemblages Michael J. Benton, Geoffrey Warrington, Andrew J. Newell and Patrick S. Spencer 8. Small tetrapods from the Upper Triassic of the Richmond Basin, Virginia Hans-Dieter Sues 9. Microvertebrates from the Placerias Quarry: a window on Late Triassic vertebrate diversity in the American Southwest Fran Tannenbaum Kaye and Kevin Padian 10. Late Triassic microvertebrates from central Europe Denise Sigogneau and Gerhard Hahn 11. Assemblages of small tetrapods from British Late Triassic fissure deposits Nicholas C. Fraser 12. Ornithiscian dinosaurs from the Upper Triassic of the United States Adrian P. Hunt and Spencer G. Lucas 13. Early Jurassic small tetrapods from the McCoy Brook formation of Nova Scotia Neil H. Shubin, Paul E. Olsen and Hans-Dieter Sues 14. The small tetrapods of the Lower Lufeng Formation, Yunnan, China Zhexi Luo and Xiao-chun Wu 15. Assemblages of small tetrapods from the Early Jurassic of Britain Susan E. Evans and Kenneth A. Kermack 16. A review of the Early Jurassic tetrapods from the Glen Canyon Group of the American Southwest Hans-Dieter Sues, James M. Clark and Farish A. Jenkins, Jr 17. An Early or Middle Jurassic tetrapod assemblage from the La Boca Formation, northeastern Mexico James M. Clark, Marisol Montellano, James A. Hopson, Rene Hernandez and David Fastovsky 18. Middle Jurassic microvertebrate assemblages from the British Isles Susan E. Evans and Andrew Milner 19. A new Bathonian microvertebrate locality in the English Midlands Sara J. Metcalf and Rachel J. Walker Part III. Faunal Change: 20. The chronology and biogeography of mammalian origins Spencer G. Lucas and Adrian P. Hunt 21. Biotic and climatic changes in the Carnian (Triassic) of Europe and adjacent areas Michael J. Simms, Alastair H. Ruffell and Andrew L. A. Johnson 22. Late Triassic to Middle Jurassic extinctions among continental tetrapods Michael J. Benton 23. Comments on 'Late Triassic to Middle Jurassic extinctions among continental tetrapods' Nicholas C. Fraser and Hans-Dieter Sues 24. What was the tempo and mode of evolutionary change in the Late Triassic to Middle Jurassic? Kevin Padian 25. Field trip guide: field guide to three late Triassic tetrapod sites in Virginia and North Carolina Paul E. Olsen and Annika K. Johansson.
Publication Year: 1997
Publication Date: 1997-08-01
Language: en
Type: book
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