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- catalog abstract ""Around 370 million years ago, a distant relative of a modern lungfish began a most extraordinary adventure: It emerged from the sea and laid claim to the land. Over the next 70 million years, this tentative beachhead became a worldwide colonization by an ever-increasing variety of four-limbed life. These first "tetrapods" are the ancestors of all vertebrate life on land. This book tells the rich and complex story of their emergence and evolution. Beginning with their closest relatives, the lobe-fin fishes such as lungfishes and coelacanths, Jennifer A. Clack defines what a tetrapod is, describes their anatomy, and explains how they are related to other vertebrates."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12606825.
- catalog created "c2002.".
- catalog date "2002".
- catalog date "c2002.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2002.".
- catalog description ""Around 370 million years ago, a distant relative of a modern lungfish began a most extraordinary adventure: It emerged from the sea and laid claim to the land. Over the next 70 million years, this tentative beachhead became a worldwide colonization by an ever-increasing variety of four-limbed life. These first "tetrapods" are the ancestors of all vertebrate life on land. This book tells the rich and complex story of their emergence and evolution. Beginning with their closest relatives, the lobe-fin fishes such as lungfishes and coelacanths, Jennifer A. Clack defines what a tetrapod is, describes their anatomy, and explains how they are related to other vertebrates."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 333-352) and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction. -- Skulls and skeletons in transition. -- Relationships and relatives: the lobe-fin family. -- Setting the scene: the Devonian world. -- The first feet: tetrapods of the Famennian. -- From fins to feet: transformation and transition. -- Emerging into the Carboniferous: the first phase. -- East Kirkton and the roots of the modern family tree. -- The late Carboniferous: expanding horizons. -- Gaining ground: the evolution of terrestriality.".
- catalog extent "viii, 369 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0253340543 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "Life of the past".
- catalog issued "2002".
- catalog issued "c2002.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press,".
- catalog subject "566 21".
- catalog subject "Amphibians, Fossil.".
- catalog subject "Leg Evolution.".
- catalog subject "Lungfishes, Fossil.".
- catalog subject "Paleontology Carboniferous.".
- catalog subject "Paleontology Devonian.".
- catalog subject "QE852.D5 C57 2002".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction. -- Skulls and skeletons in transition. -- Relationships and relatives: the lobe-fin family. -- Setting the scene: the Devonian world. -- The first feet: tetrapods of the Famennian. -- From fins to feet: transformation and transition. -- Emerging into the Carboniferous: the first phase. -- East Kirkton and the roots of the modern family tree. -- The late Carboniferous: expanding horizons. -- Gaining ground: the evolution of terrestriality.".
- catalog title "Gaining ground : the origin and evolution of tetrapods / Jennifer A. Clack.".
- catalog type "text".