The rise of fishes : 500 million years of evolution
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The rise of fishes : 500 million years of evolution
Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995
大学図書館所蔵 全8件
  青森
  岩手
  宮城
  秋田
  山形
  福島
  茨城
  栃木
  群馬
  埼玉
  千葉
  東京
  神奈川
  新潟
  富山
  石川
  福井
  山梨
  長野
  岐阜
  静岡
  愛知
  三重
  滋賀
  京都
  大阪
  兵庫
  奈良
  和歌山
  鳥取
  島根
  岡山
  広島
  山口
  徳島
  香川
  愛媛
  高知
  福岡
  佐賀
  長崎
  熊本
  大分
  宮崎
  鹿児島
  沖縄
  韓国
  中国
  タイ
  イギリス
  ドイツ
  スイス
  フランス
  ベルギー
  オランダ
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  ノルウェー
  アメリカ
注記
Maps of fossil sites on endpapers
Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-220) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
This work traces the evolutionary history of fishes over the course of 500 million years, from armoured fishes and monster sharks to fishes with arms that breathe air. It describes the discovery of fossil remains and explains the techniques used in their interpretation.
目次
- Part 1 Enigmatic fossils - heads or tails?: the origins of fishes
- tunicates (urochordates)
- lancelets (cephalochordates)
- the conodonts - enigmatic fossils
- the mitrates - strange allies of the vertebrates?
- bone - its early beginnings
- gills. Part 2 Jawless wonders - the first fishes: the agnatha
- the oldest fishes - ordovician agnathans
- the heterostraci - a great radiation
- anaspida - forerunners of lampreys
- thelodonti - the scales tell the tales
- the gelaspida - mysterious oriental agnathans
- pituriaspida - a newly discovered class of vertebrates
- osteostracans - the pinnacle of jawless achievement
- the end of the jawless empire
- links to the first jawed fishes
- basic structure of primitive agnathans
- fish teeth. Part 3 Sharks and their kin - killers from way back: class chondrichthyes
- the origin of sharks
- the late palaeozoic chondrichthyan radiation
- humble beginnings of modern chondrichthyan faunas
- holocephalans - an early radiation
- the rays shine through
- basic structure of primitive chondrichthyans. Part 4 Extinct spiny fins - the acanthodii: the origins and affinities of acanthodians
- the climatiiformes - armoured and adorned acanthodians
- the ischnacanthiformes - the predators
- acanthodiformes - filter-feeders and survivors
- basic structure of an acanthodian. Part 5 Armoured fishes and fishes with arms: class placodermi
- placoderm origins and relationships
- the stensioellida and the pseudo-petalichthyida - early enigmatics
- the rhenanida and the acanthothoraci - elaborately armoured ones
- the ptyctodontida - crushing teeth and spiky clasper
- the petalichthyida and their odd relatives
- the flat and fearsome phyllolepida
- the arthrodira - the great placoderm success story
- the antiarchi - always at arms length
- basic structure of placoderm
- gogo fishes and the acid preparation technique
- reproduction and the origins of vertebrate sex. Part 6 True bony fishes and their origins: class osteichthyes
- lophosteiforms - enigmatic ancestors of bony fishes
- the oldest true osteichthyans
- basic structure of an osteichthyan. Part 7 Ray-finned fishes - a winning formula: the actino-pterygii
- Devonian ray-finned fishes
- the rise of the primitive ray-fins
- neopterygii - the dawning of success
- teleosteans - their early beginnings
- basic structure of a primitive ray-finned fish
- fishes and dinosaurs - life in a mesozoic ecosystem. Part 8 Lungfishes - fishes that breathe: the dipnoi
- lungfish origins
- dipnoan diversity - the denticle shedders
- dentine-covered palates - the early crushers
- refined feeding mechanisms
- basic structure of primitive dipnoan
- the origin of lungs. Part 9 Big teeth - strong fins: class osteichthyes, subclass crossopterygii
- primitive crossopterygians
- the coelacanths (actinistia)
- the extinct porolepiformes
- the dagger-toothed fishes (onychodontiformes)
- giant killers of the carboniferous - rhizodontiforms
- fishes leading to land animals - osteolepiformes. (Part contents).
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