Vertebrate Paleobiology: A Form and Function Approach

by Sergio F. Vizcaino, Guillermo Hernán Cassini, M. Susana Bargo

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:...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253070473
• ISBN13: 9780253070470
• Release Date: August 2024
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 312 Pages