Prehistoric Mammals of Australia and New Guinea
One Hundred Million Years of Evolution
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Publication
2003-01-03 - The Johns Hopkins University Press
Language
English
Word Count
60,000 words, Guess
Page Count
240 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL7871016M
- ISBN-139780801872235
- ISBN-100801872235
- OCLC Control Number49860159
- Library of Congress Control Number2002069485
and 2 more
- Goodreads778955
- LibraryThing818035
Classifications
- LCCQE881 .P74 2002
Description
"Ancestral koalas, carnivorous kangaroos, rhinoceros-sized Diprotodons, bizarre 'thingadontans', marsupial lions, primitive bats, toothed baleen whales: The Prehistoric Mammals of Australia and New Guinea: One Hundred Million Years of Evolution is a lavishly illustrated and comprehensive reference work on the extinct mammals of ancient Australia and New Guinea." "This book includes: each mammal described in detail; information on discovery, evolution and classification; appearance and behaviour reconstructed from fossil evidence; technical physiological data; extensive bibliography by Alexander Baynes; 60 superb colour reconstructions by Anne Musser; 160 colour photographs; detailed illustrations of skeletal features and tooth structures."--Jacket.
First Sentence
The living mammal fauna of Australia reads like a picture book of prehistoric times - egg-laying and pouch-bearing mammals inhabiting a drifting island remnant of Gondwana, the ancient southern supercontinent.
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