| Chinese Fossil Vertebrates Contributor(s): Lucas, Spencer (Author) |
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ISBN: 0231084838 ISBN-13: 9780231084833 Publisher: Columbia University Press OUR PRICE: $64.35 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2002 Annotation: The literature on Chinese fossil vertebrates is extremely difficult for Western scholars to assimilate and interpret. In part, this is because much of that literature is in Chinese, and few useful reviews exist in Western languages. Yet China has an extensive vertebrate fossil record, one that plays a key role in understanding the evolution of vertebrates. Spencer Lucas gives an up-to-date review and synthesis of the Chinese vertebrate fossil record that will greatly facilitate an understanding of and further research into this outstanding fossil record. The book provides the reader with a comprehensive, chronologically ordered review of China's vertebrate fossil record. It also presents a history of vertebrate paleontological studies in China and an entre to some important issues of systematics, evolutionary history, paleoecology, taphonomy, and functional anatomy best elucidated by China's fossils. This volume should therefore become an indispensable part of the library of any student of vertebrate evolution. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Science | Paleontology - Nature | Fossils - Science | Earth Sciences - General |
| Dewey: 566.095 |
| LCCN: 2001042435 |
| Lexile Measure: 1310 |
| Physical Information: 0.85" H x 6.98" W x 10.1" (1.50 lbs) 320 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Chinese |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book is a comprehensive, chronologically ordered review of China's vertebrate fossil record. It also presents a history of vertebrate paleontological studies in China and an entr e to some important issues of systematics, evolutionary history, paleoecology, taphonomy, and functional anatomy best elucidated by China's fossils. |
Contributor Bio(s): Lucas, Spencer: - Spencer Lucas is the Curator of Paleontology at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science and a recognized expert in the field. He has published numerous books on dinosaurs, the most recent of which is Dinosaurs: The Textbook (CUP forthcoming). He has 16 years of museum experience and 17 years of teaching experience at the university level. |