Vertebrate Paleobiology: A Form and Function Approach by Vizca匤o, Sergio F.

Vertebrate Paleobiology: A Form and Function Approach (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780253070470)

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Vertebrate Paleobiology: A Form and Function Approach by Vizca匤o, Sergio F.

Vertebrate Paleobiology: A Form and Function Approach

$100.00
Vertebrate Paleobiology: A Form and Function Approach by Vizca匤o, Sergio F.

Vertebrate Paleobiology: A Form and Function Approach

$100.00
Format: Hardcover
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An essential introduction to the paleobiology of animal body size, locomotion, and feeding.

Paleobiology is the branch of evolutionary biology involved in the reconstruction of the life histories of extinct organisms. It answers the questions, How do we use fossils to reconstruct the size of prehistoric animals, and How did they move and feed? Drawing on a rich inventory of South American Miocene fossils, Vertebrate Paleobiology: A Form and Function Approach examines different aspects of functional morphology and how they are tested by paleontologists, anatomists, and zoologists.

Beginning with a review of various methodologies to interpret fossils, the authors turn to the main concepts important to functional morphology and give examples of each. They conclude by showing how functional morphology enables a dynamic, broadscale reconstruction of the life of prehistoric animals during the South American Miocene.

Originally published in Spanish, Vertebrate Paleobiology: A Form and Function Approach provides a broad sweep of recent developments, including theoretical and practical techniques, applied to the study of extinct vertebrates.



Author: Sergio F. Vizca匤o, M. Susana Bargo, Guillermo H. Cassini
ISBN-10: 0253070473
ISBN-13: 9780253070470
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Language: English
Published: 08/08/2024
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
By Sergio F. Vizca匤o
By Sergio F. Vizca匤o
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Sergio F. Vizca匤o is Professor of Vertebrate Zoology at Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Researcher of the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cient凬icas y T馗nicas (CONICET), and Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology at the Museo de La Plata, Argentina. He is author (with Richard A. Farina and Gerardo De Iuliis) of Megafauna: Giant Beasts of Pleistocene South America.
M. Susana Bargo is Researcher of the Comisi de Investigaciones Cient凬icas de la Provincia de Buenos Aires (CIC PBA) and Associate Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology at the Museo de La Plata, Argentina. She is editor (with Sergio F. Vizca匤o, and Richard F. Kay) of Early Miocene Paleobiology in Patagonia: High-Latitude Paleocommunities of the Santa Cruz Formation. Guillermo H. Cassini is Professor of Structural and Functional Adaptations of Vertebrates at the Universidad Nacional de Luj疣, Researcher of the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cient凬icas y T馗nicas (CONICET) at the Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales "Bernardino Rivadavia" (MACN-BR), Argentina, and Associate Curator from Colecci Nacional de Mastozoolog僘 at the MACN-BR.
N駸tor Toledo teaches Comparative Anatomy at the Universidad Nacional de La Plata and is Researcher of the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cient凬icas y T馗nicas (CONICET) at the Museo de La Plata, Argentina.
Gerardo De Iuliis is Lecturer of Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy and Vertebrate Palaeontology at the University of Toronto, Professor of Anatomy and Physiology at George Brown College, and Research Associate at the Royal Ontario Museum, Canada. He is author (with Sergio F. Vizca匤o and Richard A. Farina) of Megafauna: Giant Beasts of Pleistocene South America.

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