Prehistoric Mammals of Australia and New Guinea
Subtitle: One Hundred Million Years of Evolution
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: January 3, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780801872235
Subjects: Evolution; Mammals; Palaeozoology; Prehistory; Mammals, Fossil; Vertebrate Paleontology; Science; Science/Mathematics; Australia; Papua New Guinea; New Guinea; Life Sciences - Biology - General; Paleontology; Science / Biology
First sentence: The living mammal fauna of Australia reads like a picture book of prehistoric times - egg-laying and pouch-bearing mammals inhabiting a drifting island remnant of Gondwana, the ancient southern supercontinent.
Description: "Ancestral koalas, carnivorous kangaroos, rhinoceros-sized Diprotodons, bizarre 'thingadontans', marsupial lions, primitive bats, toothed baleen whales: The Prehistoric Mammals of Australia and New Guinea: One Hundred Million Years of Evolution is a lavishly illustrated and comprehensive reference work on the extinct mammals of ancient Australia and New Guinea." "This book includes: each mammal described in detail; information on discovery, evolution and classification; appearance and behaviour reconstructed from fossil evidence; technical physiological data; extensive bibliography by Alexander Baynes; 60 superb colour reconstructions by Anne Musser; 160 colour photographs; detailed illustrations of skeletal features and tooth structures."--Jacket.