RE: Non-Dino Books

[Toby White <mwhite@houston.rr.com>]

I haven't had a chance to read it yet, but I understand that Carl Zimmer's 
"At the water's edge" may be what you're looking for.  However, I've found 
nothing in the early tetrapod area which really compares with Long's book 
or, more technically, Phillippe Janvier's treatise.  On the technical side, 
there's maybe the series of papers that Boy published in Palaontologische 
Zeit., starting about 10 years ago, but I don't read German so I wouldn't 
know.  I've found some edited collections similar to the Mesozoic Marine 
Reptiles volume.  However, what the field needs is the thematic unity that 
only a one-author book can give.

[Jenny Clack, Per Ahlberg, Adam Yates & Bob Carroll (apologies to those 
I've forgotten) -- are you listening?]

  --Toby White

Vertebrate Notes at
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Subject:        Re: Non-Dino Books

At 10:57 am 10/03/00 +1000, Lee J. McLean wrote:
>At the risk of being off-topic, as a follow-up to my previous enquiry I
>am also interested in good recent books covering prehistoric life other
>than dinosaurs. I get the impression that the dinosaur renaissance has
>reduced the number of non-dino prehistory books in recent years, but
>there still appears to be at least some good ones coming out (e.g.
>"Ancient Marine Reptiles"). Any good ones you could point in my
>direction would be greatly appreciated. Particularly, has anybody ever
>done a book on prehistoric amphibians? I find these particularly
>interesting e.g. the recently discussed _Platyhystrix_.

        One good one that comes readily to mind is John Long's "The Rise of
Fishes: 500 Million Years of Evolution", University of New South Wales
Press, Sydney/John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1995.