This book looks at how an animal is organized to carry out a difficult task - that of feeding on plants. The complex adaptations necessary to enable animals to obtain nutrients successfully from a herbivorous diet are many. For the first time these problems are examined here purely from the perspective of reptiles. Common themes are teased out and arranged chronologically to help gain an understanding of the patterns of diversity change in the group. This book will be of great interest to researchers and students of zoology, palaeontology, evolution, ecology, functional anatomy and morphology.
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'We are what we eat' could usefully be accompanied by 'We are how we eat'. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
vorous lizards, mandibuli muscle, mouth processing, lateral pterygoid flange, propalinal jaw movement, mastication system, preorbital part, quadratojugal bone, bony secondary palate, external adductors, herbivorous cynodonts, temporal fenestra, internal adductors, coronoid eminence, propalinal movement, large coronoid process, gut processing, reptilian herbivores, successful herbivores, transverse power stroke, continuous tooth replacement, herbivorous adaptations, streptostylic quadrate, herbivorous forms, jaw adductor muscles Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Late Permian, North America, After Norman, South Africa, Lower Triassic, Upper Triassic, Early Triassic, South America, Lower Cretaceous, After Alexander, Middle Jurassic, Upper Cretaceous New!
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'We are what we eat' could usefully be accompanied by 'We are how we eat'. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
vorous lizards, mandibuli muscle, mouth processing, lateral pterygoid flange, propalinal jaw movement, mastication system, preorbital part, quadratojugal bone, bony secondary palate, external adductors, herbivorous cynodonts, temporal fenestra, internal adductors, coronoid eminence, propalinal movement, large coronoid process, gut processing, reptilian herbivores, successful herbivores, transverse power stroke, continuous tooth replacement, herbivorous adaptations, streptostylic quadrate, herbivorous forms, jaw adductor muscles Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Late Permian, North America, After Norman, South Africa, Lower Triassic, Upper Triassic, Early Triassic, South America, Lower Cretaceous, After Alexander, Middle Jurassic, Upper Cretaceous New!
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- Biology of the Reptilia, Vol. 15: Development B by Carl Gans in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Morphology and Biology of Reptiles (Linnean Society symposium series ; no. 3) by A. D. Bellairs in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution by Robert L. Carroll in Back Matter
- Ecology of Arboreal Folivores by G.Gene Montgomery in Back Matter
- Vertebrate Palaeontology by Michael J. Benton in Back Matter
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- Evolution of Herbivory in Terrestrial Vertebrates: Perspectives from the Fossil Record by Hans-Dieter Sues on page 40, and page 76
- The Armored Dinosaurs (Life of the Past) by Kenneth Carpenter on page 316
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