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Early Evolutionary History of the Synapsida
Paperback
Series: Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology
ISBN13: 9789402407303
Publisher: Springer
Published: Aug 23 2016
Pages: 337
Weight: 1.75
Height: 0.73 Width: 8.25 Depth: 11.00
Language: English
Part I. Pelycosaur-grade Synapsids
1. Introduction
Robert R. Reisz
2. New Information on the Basal Pelycosaurian-grade Synapsid Oedaleops
Stuart S. Sumida, Valerie Pelletier, and David S Berman
3. Was Ophiacodon (Synapsida: Eupelycosauria) a Swimmer? A Test Using Vertebral Dimensions
Ryan N. Felice and Kenneth D. Angielczyk
4. Postcranial Description and Reconstruction of the Varanodontine Varanopid Aerosaurus wellesi (Synapsida: Eupelycosauria)
Valerie Pelletier
5. First European Record of a Varanodontine (Synapsida: Varanopidae): Member of a Unique Early Permian Upland Paleoecosystem, Tambach Basin, Central Germany
David S Berman, Amy C. Henrici, Stuart S. Sumida, Thomas Martens, and Valerie Pelletier
Part II. Anomodontia
6. Introduction
Jörg Fröbisch
7. Permian and Triassic Dicynodont (Therapsida: Anomodontia) Faunas of the Luangwa Basin, Zambia: Update and Implications for Dicynodont Biogeography and Biostratigraphy
Kenneth D. Angielczyk, Jean-Sébastien Steyer, Christian A. Sidor, Roger M. H. Smith, Robin L. Whatley, and Stephen Tolan
8. Anatomical Plasticity in the Snout of Lystrosaurus
Sandra C. Jasinoski, Michael A. Cluver, Anusuya Chinsamy, and B. Daya Reddy
9. Pathological Features in Upper Permian and Middle Triassic Dicynodonts (Synapsida, Therapsida)
Cristina Silveira Vega and Michael W. Maisch
Part III. Theriodontia
10. Introduction
Christian F. Kammerer
11. A Redescription of Eriphostoma microdon Broom, 1911 (Therapsida, Gorgonopsia) from the Tapinocephalus Assemblage Zone of South Africa and a Review of Middle Permian Gorgonopsians
Christian F. Kammerer
12. Re-assessment of the Taxonomic Position of the Specimen GPIT/RE/7113 (Sauroctonus parringtoni comb. nov., Gorgonopsia)
Eva V. I. Gebauer
13. New Material of Microgomphodon oligocynus (Eutherapsida, Therocephalia) and the Taxonomy of Southern African Bauriidae
Fernando Abdala, Tea Jashashvili, Bruce S. Rubidge, and Juri van den Heever
14. The Traversodontid Cynodont Mandagomphodon hirschsoni from the Middle Triassic of the Ruhuhu Valley, Tanzania
James A. Hopson
15. Phylogeny and Taxonomy of the Traversodontidae
Jun Liu and Fernando Abdala
Part IV. Therapsid Diversity Patterns and the End-Permian Extinction
16. IntroductionKenneth D. Angielczyk
17. Vertebrate Paleontology of Nooitgedacht 68: A Lystrosaurus maccaigi-rich Permo-Triassic Boundary Locality in South Africa
Jennifer Botha-Brink, Adam K. Huttenlocker, and Sean P. Modesto
18. Fröbisch, J. Synapsid Diversity and the Rock Record in the Permian-Triassic Beaufort Group (Karoo Supergroup), South Africa
Jörg Fröbisch
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