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Re: Mammal - Like - Reptiles ... info needed.
Jonkeria@aol.com wrote:
> Dave, in a message dated 98-02-23 01:03:40 EST, wrote:
>
> << I would definitely recommend John McLoughlin's book _Synapsida_, which is
> regretably out-of-print, but should be at a local library.>>
>
> There is of course _The Ecology and Biology of the Mammal-like Reptiles_
> edited by Nicholas Hotton III and published by Smithsonian Institution Press,
> but it is hard to get and very expensive (and even now just a tad dated.).
To this and the others listed in this thread, I'd like to add two more:
IN THE SHADOW OF THE DINOSAURS: EARLY MESOZOIC TETRAPODS
Nicholas Fraser and Hans-Dieter Sues (ed.)
c. 1995, Cambridge University Press
This is a collection of 25 journal-quality articles on Triassic and Early
Jurassic
non-dinosaur tetrapods, including both late therapsids and early mammals.
"Synapsid Evolution and the Radiation of Non-Eutherian Mammals"
James A. Hopson
Article in MAJOR FEATURES OF VERTEBRATE EVOLUTION
Short Course #7 from The Paleontological Society
This is an article on therapsid and early mammal evolution and relationships,
with
the most up-to-date information known in 1994.
Also, Dave, you asked specifically about _Lystrosaurus_. Besides being a
synapsid, _Lystrosaurus_ has an entire separate facet to its history: it was one
of the staple pieces of fossil evidence for continental drift, back when that
theory was a spittoon for American paleontologists and geologists. When Ned
Colbert found _Lystrosaurus_ distributed across southwestern Africa,
southeastern
South America, _and_ bits of Antarctica, it was the clearest proof possible that
all those landmasses were once connected, and not by any measly land bridges.
-- Jon W.