Amniote paleobiology
Subtitle: perspectives on the evolution of mammals, birds, and reptiles : a volume honoring James Allen Hopson
By: edited by Matthew T. Carrano ... [et al.].
Contributors: Carrano, Matthew T.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 553
Subjects: Hopson, James Allen.; Amniotes, Fossil -- Evolution.; Amniotes -- Evolution.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: New fossils and phylogenies; title: The mandible of Whatcheeria deltae, an early tetrapod from the late mississippian of Iowa; title: Theropod dinosaurs from the early Jurassic of Huizachal Canyon, Mexico; title: Herpetoskylax hopsoni, a new biarmosuchian (Therapsida: Biarmosuchia) from the Beaufort Group of South Africa; title: The postcranial skeleton of Kayentatherium wellesi from the Lower Jurassic Kayenta Formation of Arizona and the phylogenetic significance of postcranial features in tritylodontid cynodonts; title: The phylogeny of living and extinct armadillos (Mammalia, Xenarthra, Cingulata): a craniodental analysis; title: Large-scale evolutionary patterns; title: The origins of high browsing and the effects of phylogeny and scaling on neck length in Sauropodomorphs; title: Body-size evolution in the Dinosauria; title: Major changes in the ear region and basicranium of early mammals -; title: Functional morphology; title: Shoulder girdle and forelimb in multituberculates: evolution of parasagittal forelimb posture in mammals; title: Tooth orientation during occlusion and the functional significance of condylar translation in primates and herbivores; title: Ontogeny and evolution; title: Neoteny and the plesiomorphic condition of the plesiosaur basicranium; title: Scaling of the hind limb skeleton in cynognathian cynodonts: implications for ontogeny and the evolution of mammalian endothermy; title: Cranial variability, ontogeny, and taxonomy of Lystrosaurus from the Karoo Basin of South Africa; title: Reflections on James Allen Hopson; title: James Allen Hopson: a biography.