Mammals from the Age of Dinosaurs: Origins, Evolution, and Structure

Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska, Richard L. Cifelli, and Zhe-Xi Luo

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November, 2004
Cloth, 700 pages, 239 illus.
ISBN: 978-0-231-11918-4
$214.50 / £148.00

FOREWORD, by J. A. Lillegraven and W. A. Clemens

PROLOGUE

1. Introduction

2. Distribution: Mesozoic Mammals in Space and Time

3. Origin of Mammals

4. The Earliest-Known Stem Mammals

5. Docodontans

6. Australosphenida and Shotherium

7. Eutriconodontans

8. Allotherians

9. "Symmetrodontans" (Stem Trechnotherians)

10. "Eupantotherians" (Stem Cladotherians)

11. "Tribotherians" (Stem Boreosphenidans)

12. Metatherians

13. Eutherians

14. Gondwanatherians

15. Interrelationships of Mesozoic Mammals

Related Subjects

• Biology
• Paleontology
• Zoology

About the Author

Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska is professor emeritus at the Institute of Paleobiology, Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw and the University of Oslo. She was the leader of the Polish-Mongolian expedition to the Gobi Desert (1963–1971) that discovered spectacular dinosaurs and mammals. She has devoted most of her scientific life to the studies of the Mesozoic mammals. Richard L. Cifelli is curator of vertebrate paleontology at the Oklahoma Museum of Natural History and professor of zoology at the University of Oklahoma. He has led extensive field explorations of fossil vertebrates in the Mesozoic and Cenozoic of North and South Americas and studied the biogeographical and faunal evolution of early mammals. Zhe-Xi Luo is curator of vertebrate paleontology at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh. He has actively explored fossil mammals and dinosaurs in China and in the United States and studied evolutionary morphology and phylogenetic relationships of early mammals and fossil whales.

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