Functional morphology and evolution
By: Peter Dodson and Philip Gingerich, editors
Series: The American journal of science -- v. 293-A
Publisher: Kline Geology Laboratory, Yale University
Published: 1993
Place of publication: New Haven, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 478
Subjects: Paleontology; Evolution; Morphology (Animals)
Notes: "A special volume of the American journal of science dedicated to John H. Ostrom"--T. p.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Feeding strategies and metabolism in elephants and sauropod dinosaurs / Edwin H. Colbert; title: Ammonite aptychi : how to transform a jaw into an operculum / Adolph Seilacher; title: The origin of the tetrapods / Keith Stewart Thomson; title: Function and phylogeny in sauropterygian (Diapsida) evolution / Glenn W. Storrs; title: The wings of pterosaurs / Kevin Padian and Jeremy M.V. Rayner; title: On the rareness of big, fierce animals : speculations about the body sizes, population densities, and geographic ranges of predatory mammals and large, carnivorous dinosaurs / James O. Farlow; title: Comparative craniology of the Ceratopsia / Peter Dodson; title: Skull of Archaeornithoides from the upper Cretaceous of Mongolia / Andrzej Elzanowski and Peter Wellnhofer; title: The evolution of the avian shoulder joint / Farish A. Jenkins; title: Braincase structure in the oldest known skull of a therian mammal : implications for mammalian systematics and cranial evolution / James A. Hopson and Guillermo W. Rougier.; title: (cont.) Inferring locomotor behavior in Paleogene mammals via eigenshape analysis / Norman MacLeod and Kenneth D. Rose; title: Tooth form and diet in ateline and alouattine primates : reflections on the comparative method / Mark R.L. Anthony and Richard F. Kay; title: New endocasts of Aegyptopithecus : oldest well-preserved record of the brain in Anthropoidea / Elwyn L. Simons; title: "On the merits of adequacy" / Carl Gans; title: Tree-based approaches to understanding history : comments on ranks, rules, and the quality of the fossil record / Mark A. Norell; title: Turn-over pulses, the Red Queen, and related topics / Elisabeth S. Vrba; title: Quantification and comparison of evolutionary rates / Philip D. Gingerich.