''Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution'' is an advanced textbook on

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by Robert L. Carroll, published in 1988 by WH Freeman. It provides a very detailed technical account of various groups of living and fossil vertebrates. The book, which is written in the style of

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Vertebrate Paleontology Vertebrate paleontology is the subfield of paleontology that seeks to discover, through the study of fossilized remains, the behavior, reproduction and appearance of extinct animals with vertebrae or a notochord. It also tries to connect, by us ...

'', presented more recent overall coverage of the subject. At the rear of the book is a 53-page Classification list which lists every

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known at the time of publication, along with locality and stratigraphic range. ''Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution'' appeared in print in 1988, just before the

cladistic Cladistics (; ) is an approach to biological classification in which organisms are categorized in groups ("clades") based on hypotheses of most recent common ancestry. The evidence for hypothesized relationships is typically shared derived char ...

taxonomy became popular in vertebrate paleontology. The books thus uses the classical systematic scheme, including a number of paraphyletic taxa that are not recognised under phylogenetic nomenclature.

Bibliography

* Carroll, R.L. 1988. ''Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution''. WH Freeman and Company, New York Paleontology books 1988 non-fiction books 1988 in paleontology {{paleo-book-stub