Ancient Marine Reptiles
- List Price: $138.00
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Academic Pr
- Publish date: 11/01/1996
Vertebrate evolution has led to the convergent appearance of many groups of originally terrestrial animals that now live in the sea. Among these groups are familiar mammals like whales, dolphins, and seals. There are also reptilian lineages (like plesiosaurs, ichthyosaurs, mosasaurs, thalattosaurs, and others) that have become sea creatures. Most of these marine reptiles, often wrongly called "dinosaurs", are extinct. This edited book is devoted to these extinct groups of marine reptiles that are characterized by many features duplicated by today's marine mammals.These reptilian analogs represent useful models of the myriad adaptations that permit tetrapods to live in the ocean.
-- First book in more than 80 years devoted exclusively to fossil marine reptiles
-- Documents the most current research on extinct marine reptiles
-- Prepared by the world'smost prominent experts in the field
-- Beautifully illustrated
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