Vertebrate Paleobiology
Vizcaíno, Sergio F / Bargo, M Susana / Cassini, Guillermo H / Toledo, Néstor / De Iuliis, Gerardo
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 Fu...