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Frozen in time : prehistoric life in Antarctica / Jeffrey D. Stilwell and John A. Long
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560.9989 STI
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Collingwood, Vic.: CSIRO
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2011
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x, 238 p. : col. ill., ports. ; 27 cm.
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9780643096356
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Book
Abstract:
A comprehensive overview of the fossil record of Antarctica framed within its changing environmental settings. Jeffrey Stilwell, Monash University; John Long, Australian palaeontologist, currently at Natural History Museum of Los Angeles, USA.
Contents:
1.The cold, barren land we call Antarctica -- 2. A continent discovered -- 3. The fossil pioneers -- 4. Antarctica's oldest fossils -- 5. The age of fish and ferns -- 6. A time of southern coal swamps -- 7. Giant amphibians and hairy reptiles -- 8. Volcanic
lakes and early dinosaurs -- 9. When dinosaurs ruled -- 10. When giant reptiles swam in southern seas -- 11. Killer birds, giant penguins and early mammals -- 12. The big chill: from paradise to polar ice -- 13. Life today in the frozen south.
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