Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution is an advanced textbook on vertebrate paleontology by Robert L. Carroll, published by WH Freeman. It provides a very detailed technical account of various groups of living and fossil vertebrates. Vertebrate paleontology seeks to discover the behavior, reproduction and appearance of extinct spined animals, through the study of their fossilized remains. ... Robert L. Carroll (b. ...

The book, which is wrtten in the style of Alfred Sherwood Romer's Vertebrate Paleontology, presents the most recent overall coverage of this subject. At the rear of the book is a 53 page Classification list which lists every genus known at the time of publication, along with locality and stratigraphic range. Alfred Sherwood Romer (December 28, 1894 _ November 5, 1973) was an American paleontologist and comparative anatomist and a specialist in vertebrate evolution. ... Scientific classification or biological classification is how biologists group and categorize extinct and living species of organisms (as opposed to folk taxonomy). ... In biology, a genus (plural genera) is a taxonomic grouping. ...

Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution appeared in print in 1988, just before the cladistic revolution, and so incorporates a number of paraphyletic taxa that are no longer recognised. 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Greek clados = branch) or phylogenetic systematics is a branch of biology that determines the evolutionary relationships of living things based on derived similarities. ... Paraphyletic - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ...

Bibliography

• Carroll, R.L. 1988. Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution. WH Freeman and Company, New York ISBN 0-716-71822-7