The author delineates what is and is not known about vertebrates from the Late Cretaceous and into the early Tertiary periods, drawing on the wealth of available information and his own research. B&w photographs and diagrams. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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The first book to approach the Cretaceous extinction―the period during which dinosaurs disappeared from Earth―from the perspective of the fossil record.
J. David Archibald is professor emeritus of biology at San Diego State University and curator of mammals in the SDSU Vertebrate Collections. His books include Dinosaur Extinction and the End of an Era: What the Fossils Say (1996) and Aristotle's Ladder, Darwin's Tree: The Evolution of Visual Metaphors for Biological Order (2014), both from Columbia University Press.
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