Language: English
ISBN/ISSN: 9787030212894
Published on: 2008-01
Hardcover
Fifteen years have past since the first edition of The Chinese Fossil Reptiles and Their Kin was published. Like its first edition, this second edition remains to serve as an introductory manual of the Chinese lower vertebrate fossils and primitive birds for paleontologists and nonprofessionals alike.
This thoroughly revised and updated edition has incorporated 172 new genera and 219 new species discovered in the past 15 years in China. Most of them came from the materials collected during the China-Canada Dinosaur Project in northwestern China, the Jehol Biota in northern China, the Dashankou fauna in Gansu, and the Triassic marine fauna in Guizhou.
Preface
Introduction
Introduction (The first edition, 1992)
Institutional abbreviations
Tetrapoda
Amphibia
Order Temnospondyli
Subclass Lissamphibia
Superorder Caudata
Order Urodela
Superorder Salientia
Order Anura
Superorder Reptiliomorpha
Order Anthracosauria
Amniota
Sauropsida
Subclass Anapsida
Suborder Procolophonia
Suborder Pareiasauroidea
Order Testudines
Infraorder Rhaptochelydia
Gigaorder Casichelydia
Suborder Cryptodira
Hyperorder Daiocryptodira
Order Captorhinomorpha
Subclass Diapsida
Order Choristodera
Infraclass Lepidosauromorpha
Superorder Lepidosauria
Order Rhynchocephalia
Order Squamata
Infraorder Iguania
Scleroglossa
Infraorder Scincomorpha
Infraorder Anguimorpha
Suborder Serpentes
Marine diapsids
Order Hupehsuchia
Superorder Ichthyopterygia
Order Grippidia
Order Ichthyosauria
Suborder Mixosauda
Suborder Merriamosauriformes
Infraorder Shastasauria
Infraorder Euichthyosauria
Superorder Thalattosauria
Superorder Sauropterygia
Order Placodontia
Suborder Cyamodontoidea
Order Eosauropterygia
Suborder Pachypleurosauria
Suborder Eusauropterygia
Infraorder Nothosauroidea
Infraorder Pistosauroidea
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