Titlebook: Living Fossils; Niles Eldredge,Steven M. Stanley Book 19841st edition Springer-Verlag New York Inc. 1984 Bryozoa.Evolution (Biol.).Lebende

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Tragulids as Living Fossils,ornless ungulates and, as the term “mouse deer” suggests, look rather more like large rodents or rabbits than like true deer (see Fig. 1). The order Artiodactyla also includes suoids (suids, i.e. pigs and tayassuids, i.e. peccaries), deer, camels, bovids, and giraffes. The family Tragulidae is class

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Conceptual and Methodological Aspects of the Study of Evolutionary Rates, with some Comments on Bra record: If an understanding of rates depends upon having a time dimension, which most paleontologists believe can only be extracted from fossil data, how can we hope to study rates using the notoriously poor record of birds? No one would deny that the avian record is less complete than other verteb

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The Neopterygian , as a Living Fossil,ial fin-rays, “amiid” scales, uniquely ossified centra that are diplospondylous in the caudal region, a double articulation (quadrate and symplectic) with the lower jaw, loss of suborbitals, and other characters. Of the cited characters, the hemicercal caudal fin is primitive for neopterygians; the

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Family Lepisosteida (Gars) as Living Fossils, ornamentation, ganoid scales, a semiheterocercal tail, and fulcral scales on the median fins. The elongate snout is an ontogenetic product of ethmoid elongation and is correlated with many of the synapomorphies characterizing the family (Wiley 1976). Plicidentine teeth and opistocoelous vertebrae a

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,“Notidanus”,us, however, the Solnhofen Limestone provides an intriguing glimpse of a Late Jurassic shark fauna that contains early representatives of several extant families, including horn-sharks (Heterodontidae), monk-fish (Squatinidae), carpet sharks (Orectolobiformes), dogfishes (Scyliorhinidae), primitive

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Book 19841st edition began as an effort to bring some order to a large number of descriptions of these deposits that were so varied in presentation and terminology that even specialists found them difficult to compare and analyze. Thus, from the beginning, it was evident that something more than a simple collection of

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