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Author Janvier, Philippe.

Title Early vertebrates / Philippe Janvier
Published Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1996

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Description xiii, 393 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm
Series Oxford monographs on geology and geophysics ; 33
Oxford science publications
Oxford monographs on geology and geophysics ; no. 33
Oxford science publications.
Contents 1. What, where, and when? Early vertebrates as we imagine them -- 2. From rocks to theories: techniques of preparation and methods of analysis -- 3. A survey of extant vertebrates -- 4. Early vertebrates and their extant relatives -- 5. Interrelationships of the major craniate taxa: current phylogenetic theories and controversies -- 6. Anatomical philosophy: homologies, transformations, and character phylogenies -- 7. Evolution, palaeobiogeography and life history -- 8. A short history of research on early vertebrates -- 9. Epilogue
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [333]-360) and indexes
Subject Fishes, Fossil.
Vertebrates, Fossil.
LC no. 95026847
ISBN 0198540477