Studies in vertebrate paleobiology
Subtitle: essays in honor of John R. Bolt
By: editors, R. Eric Lombard [and others] ; associate editor for this volume was Olivier Rieppel
Contributors: Bolt, John R., 1940-; Field Museum of Natural History
Series: Fieldiana -- Life and earth sciences -- no. 5; Publication / Field Museum of Natural History -- 1562; Fieldiana -- no. 5.; Publication (Field Museum of Natural History) -- 1562.
Publisher: Field Museum of Natural History
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Chicago, IL
Language: eng
Number of pages: 148
Subjects: Fossil Amphibians; Research; Fossil Fishes; Fossil Reptiles; Paleobiology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: 1. Taphonomy in North America's most productive freshwater fossil locality: Fossil Basin, Wyoming / Samuel P. Sullivan, Lance Grande, Adrienne Gau, Christopher S. McAllister; title: 2. The importance of recognizing our limited knowledge of the fossil record in the analysis of phylogenetic relationships among early tetrapods / Robert L. Carroll; title: 3. A colosteid-like early tetrapod from the St. Louis limestone (early carboniferous, Meramecian), St. Louis, Missouri, USA / Jennifer A. Clack, Florian Witzmann, Johannes Müller, Daniel Snyder; title: 4. The roots of amphibian morphospace: a geometric morphometric analysis of Paleozoic temnospondyls / Kenneth D. Angielczyk, Marcello Ruta; title: 5. The evolution of the amphibian ear with implications for lissamphibian phyoegeny: insight gained from the caecilian inner ear / Hillary C. Maddin, Jason S. Anderson; title: 6. Did triadobatrachus jump? Morphology and evolution of the anuran forelimb in relation to locomotion in early salientians / Trond Sigurdsen, David M. Green, Phillip J. Bishop; title: 7. A new coelurosaurian theropod from the La Buttrera Fossil locality of Rio Negro, Argentina / Peter J. Makovicky, Sebastián Apesteguía, Federico A. Gianechini; title: 8. "Regressed" macrostomatan snakes / Olivier Rieppel; title: 9. Healed fractures in the neural spines of an associated skeleton of dimetrodon: implications for dorsal sail morphology and function / Elizabeth A. Rega., Ken Noriega, Stuart S. Sumida, Adam Huttenlocker, Andrew Lee, Brett Kennedy; title: 10. Ontogeny in the Malagasy traversodontid dadadon isaloi and a reconsideration of its phylogenetic relationships / Christian F. Kammerer, John J. Flynn, Lovasoa Ranivoharimanana, André R. Wyss; title: 11. The role of foraging mode in the origin of therapsids: implications for the origins of mammalian endothermy / James A. Hopson.