Kevin Padian (ed.)

The Beginning of the Age of Dinosaurs

Faunal Change Across the Triassic-Jurassic Boundary
Herausgeber: Padian, Kevin

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Produktbeschreibung

This comprehensive volume is richly illustrated and is intended for students and professionals in the areas of paleontology, evolutionary biology, geology, and vertebrate zoology.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 404
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Dezember 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 189mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 778g
• ISBN-13: 9780521367790
• ISBN-10: 0521367794
• Artikelnr.: 21814949

Inhaltsangabe

Preface; Introduction; Part I. The Beginning of the Age of Dinosaurs: The
Time and the Setting: 1. Historical aspects of the Triassic-Jurassic
boundary problem Edwin H. Colbert; 2. Fossil plants and the
Triassic-Jurassic boundary Sidney Ash; Part II. Late Triassic Vertebrate
Taxa and Faunas: 3. Thoughts on the origin of the Theropoda Samuel P.
Welles; 4. Structure and function of the tarsus in the phytosaurs
(Reptilia: Archosauria) J. Michael Parrish; 5. On the type material of
Coelophysis Cope (Saurischis: Theropoda), and a new specimen from the
Petrified Forest of Arizona (Late Triassic: Chinle Formation) Kevin Padian;
6. The ichnogenus Atreipus and its significance for Triassic
biostratigraphy Paul E. Olsen and Donald Baird; 7. The limb posture of
kannemeyeriid dicynodonts: functional and ecological considerations Laurie
R. Walter; 8. A new family of mammals from the lower part of the French
Rhaetic Denise Sigogneau-Russell, R. M. Frank and J. Hemmerlé; 9.
Vertebrate paleontology of the Dockum Group, western Texas and eastern New
Mexico Phillip A. Murry; 10. The Late Triassic Dockum vertebrates: their
stratigraphic and paleobiogeographic significance Sankar Chatterjee; 11. A
new vertenrate fauna from the Dockum Formation (Late Triasssic) of eastern
New Mexico J. Michael Parrish and Kenneth Carpenter; 12. Vertebrate
biostratigraphy of the Late Triassic Chinle Formation, Petrified Forest
National Park, Arizona: preliminary results R. A. Long and Kevin Padian;
Part III. Taxa and Trends Across the Triassic-Jurassic Boundary: 13.
Triassic and Jurassic fishes: patterns of diversity Amy R. McCune and Bobb
Schaeffer; 14. Triassic and Early Jurassic turtles Eugene S. Gaffney; 15.
Archosaur footprints at the terrestrial Triassic-Jurassic transition
Hartmut Haubold; 16. Herbivorous adaptations of Late Triassic and Early
Jurassic dinosaurs Pater M. Galton; 17. Masticatory apparatus of the larger
herbivores during Late Triassic and early Jurassic times A. W. Crompton and
J. Attridge; 18. On Triassic and Jurassic mammals William A. Clemens; Part
IV. Early Jurassic Vertebrate Taxa and Faunas: 19. The early radiation and
phylogenetic relationships of the Jurassic sauropod dinosaurs, based on
vertebral anatomy José F. Bonaparte; 20. Earliest records of Batrachopus
from the southwestern United States, and a revision of some early Mesozoic
crocodylomorph ichnogenera Paul E. Olsen and Kevin Padian; 21. A brief
introduction to the Lower Lufeng saurischian fauna (Lower Jurassic: Lufeng,
Yunnan, People's Republic of China) A. L. Sun and K. H. Cui; 22.
Relationships and biostratigraphic significance of the Tritylodontidae
(Synapsida) from the Kayenta Formation of northeastern Arizona Hans Dieter
Sues; 23. Vertebrate biostrarigraphy of the Glen canyon Group in northern
Arizona James M. Clark and David E. Fastovsky; Part V. Macroevolutionary
Patterns of the Triassic-Jurassic Transition: 24. The Late Triassic
tetrapod extinction events Michael J. Benton; 25. Correlation of
continental Late Triassic and Early Jurassic sediments, and patterns of the
Triassic-Jurassic tetrapod transition Paul E. Olsen and Hans-Dieter Sues;
26. Terrestrial vertebrate faunal succession during the Triassic J. M.
Zawiskie; Summary and prospectus; Taxonomic index; Ichnotaxonomic index.