Hans-Dieter Sues

Triassic Life on Land

The Great Transition

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The Triassic period is generally viewed as the beginning of the Age of Dinosaurs. For paleontologists, however, it also marks the rise of the world's first modern land ecosystems.Over the past three decades, extensive, worldwide fieldwork has led to the discovery of many new species of Triassic animals and plants, suggesting that faunal and floral changes already began in the Middle Triassic and were more protracted than previously thought. The Late Triassic is a pivotal time in the evolution of life on land, with many of the major groups of present-day vertebrates and insects first appearing in the fossil record. This book provides the first… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Fraser, Nicholas C.

ISBN: 978-0-231-13522-1
EAN: 9780231135221
Produktnummer: 5054735
Verlag: Columbia University Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
Seitenangabe: 224 S.
Masse: H28.8 cm x B22.2 cm x D2.1 cm 908 g
Abbildungen: 115 illus.
Gewicht: 908
Sonstiges: Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly

Über den Autor

Hans-Dieter Sues is Senior Scientist and Curator in the Department of Paleobiology at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, and co-editor, with Nicholas C. Fraser, of In the Shadow of the Dinosaurs: Early Mesozoic Tetrapods.Nicholas C. Fraser is Keeper of Natural Sciences at National Museums Scotland and an adjunct faculty member of the Department of Geosciences at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.