Description: Publisher's Note Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: Fossils and Phylogeny Sources of Information Methods of Analysis Classification Vertebrates in Geological Time 2. Evolution: Patterns and Process The Process of Evolution Evolutionary Phenomena 3. The Basic Vertebrate Body Plan 4. The Earliest Fossil Vertebrates: The Ostracoderms 5. The First Jawed Fishes Acanthodians Placoderms 6. Early Bony and Cartilaginous Fishes Osteichthyans Chondrichthyans 7. Later Cartilaginous Fishes 8. Later Bony Fishes 9. Designs for Land Life 10. The Amphibians 11. Early Reptiles 12. The Great Reptile Land Radiations Rhynchosaurs Turtles Lizards Snakes Amphisbaenians Sphenodon 14. Reptile Designs for Marine Life Ichthyosaurs Plesiosaurs Mosassaurs Other Aquatic Reptiles 15. Reptile Designs for Flight Pterosaurs Birds 16. The Origin of Mammals 17. Diversity of Mammalian Design Skulls Jaws Teeth Limbs 18. The Evolutionary Radiations of the Mammals Glossary Additional Readings Figure Credits Index

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