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Lebanon's "stone fishes" are among the most beautiful fossils in the world, and bear witness to a period one hundred million years in the past.
Long before it became an independent country, travelers had already made Lebanon famous for the stones that bear impressions...
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Editions DésIris
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2012-01-01
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All-new edition of the world’s leading vertebrate palaeontology textbook, now addressing key evolutionary transitions and ecological drivers for vertebrate evolution Richly illustrated with colour illustrations of the key species and cladograms of all major vertebrate...
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Wiley
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2024-06-24
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The Cenozoic history of South America faunas mainly rests on the evidence yielded by the study of fossil mammals. Following the seminal work of William D. Matthew, George G. Simpson established the slogan “Splendid Isolation” for describing the evolutionary history of...
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Springer
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2024-04-23
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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTELLER • A GOODREADS READER'S CHOICE AWARD FINALIST From the #1 bestselling author of The Lost City of the Monkey God, a jaw-dropping discovery of an Egyptian tomb opens up a slew of archaeological mysteries and deadly tales. ...
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Grand Central Publishing
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2023-12-05
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Today there are 20 million species on our planet. Yet what we see is just a snapshot in time. 99% of Earth's inhabitants are lost to our deep past. The story of what happened to these lineages - their rise and their fall - is truly remarkable.Accompanying the...
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Ebury Digital
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2023-10-19
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This volume details the results of an excavation carried out prior to development at Swan’s Nest in the town of Swaffham, Norfolk, which recorded prehistoric activity spanning the Mesolithic to Iron Age.
Of greatest significance was the identification of an extensive...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
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2021-12-27
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INVESTIGATING FOSSILSINVESTIGATING FOSSILSA HISTORY OF PALAEONTOLOGYInvestigating Fossils – A History of Palaeontology is a concise and accessible look at changing attitudes to palaeontology in general, and fossils in particular. From the existential and philosophical...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2021-06-08
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Polycystine radiolaria are exclusively marine protists and are found in all ocean waters, from polar regions to the tropics, and at all water depths. There are approximately 600 distinct described living species and several thousand fossil species of polycystines....
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2020-12-21
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TOPA Topics in Paleobiology
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Essential Ornithology provides the reader with a concise but comprehensive introduction to the biology of birds, one of the most widely studied taxonomic groups. The book begins by considering the dinosaur origins of birds and their subsequent evolution. Development,...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-09-24
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Bryozoa are among the most abundant yet least understood of phyla in the fossil record. These exclusively colonial animals can be traced back to the Ordovician as fossils and are common elements of sediments deposited in shallow marine environments. On occasion their...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2020-07-08
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TOPA Topics in Paleobiology
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AMINO ACIDS AND PROTEINS IN FOSSIL BIOMINERALS An essential cross-disciplinary guide to the proteins that form biominerals and that are preserved in the fossil record Amino Acids and Proteins in Fossil Biominerals is an authoritative guide to the patterns of survival...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2020-06-12
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Analytical Methods in Earth and Environmental Science
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This book presents a comprehensive overview of the science of the history of life. Paleobiologists bring many analytical tools to bear in interpreting the fossil record and the book introduces the latest techniques, from multivariate investigations of biogeography and...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2020-05-18
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This book provides practical morphological information, together with detailed illustrations and brief explanatory texts. Each chapter starts with a brief introduction, and goes on to describe the respective organism’s morphology in detail through numerous...
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Springer
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2019-12-12
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Springer Geology
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These proceedings contain selected papers from the Special Symposium, organised by the Argentine Association of Geomorphology and Quaternary Studies in October 2017. This Symposium was held within the frame of the 20th Argentine Geological Congress in Tucumán,...
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Springer
Parution :
2019-08-22
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Springer Earth System Sciences
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This volume combines 10 years of accomplished research at the Pilauco site. The studies are focused on a variety of scientific areas including geological, sedimentological, geomorphological and paleobotanical topics, as well as paleontology of vertebrata and...
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Springer
Parution :
2019-07-26
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The Latin American Studies Book Series
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Fossils and Strata is an international series of monographs and memoirs in palaeontology and biostratigraphy, owned by, and published on behalf of, The Lethaia Foundation in cooperation between the Scandinavian countries.Fossils and Strata forms part of the same...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2019-05-03
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Fossils and Strata Monograph Series
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A volume from a monograph series featuring seven papers on trilobites with brief summariesThis research volume is entitled Papers from the 6th International Conference on Trilobites and their Relatives. It's Volume 64 within the Fossils and Strata monograph series. The...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2019-04-15
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Fossils and Strata Monograph Series
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Documents morphology, taxonomy, phylogeny, evolutionary changes, and interactions of 23 orders of insects from the Middle Jurassic and Early Cretaceous faunas in Northern China This book showcases 23 different orders of insect fossils from the Mid Mesozoic period (165...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2019-03-18
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This timely book documents marvelous brachiopod fossils from the Palaeozoic-Mesozoic transition of South China. Numerous beautiful pictures and detailed descriptions (specifically the measurements of body size) of brachiopod species are presented. Systematic...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-01-21
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New Records of the Great Dying in South China
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