Published 1999
by Smithsonian Institution Press in Washington, D.C .
Written in English
Edition Notes
| Statement | Storrs L. Olson, editor ; Peter Wellnhofer ... [et al.], associate editors |
| Genre | Congresses |
| Series | Smithsonian contributions to paleobiology -- no. 89 |
| Contributions | Olson, Storrs L, Wellnhofer, Peter, Smithsonian Institution. Press |
| The Physical Object | |
|---|---|
| Pagination | viii, 344 p. : |
| Number of Pages | 344 |
| ID Numbers | |
| Open Library | OL14504481M |
| LC Control Number | 99033292 |
| OCLC/WorldCa | 41431748 |
Avian paleontology at the close of the 20th century: proceedings of the 4th International Meeting of the Society of Avian Paleontology and Evolution, Washington, D.C., June Avian paleontology at the close of the 20th century: proceedings of the 4th international meeting of the Society of Avian Paleontology and Evolution, Washington, D.C., June [Storrs L Olson; Peter Wellnhofer;]. The 10th International Meeting of the Society of Avian Paleontology and Evolution will be hosted at the University of Málaga (Spain) from May 25th to May 29th, The SAPE meeting is open to paleontologists, ornithologists and anyone with a general interest in bird evolution. Diamante, 1–5 August By sapeadmin August 5, In: Olson, S. L. (ed.): Avian Paleontology at the Close of the 20th Century. Proc. of the 4th International Meeting of the Society of Avian Paleontology and Evolution, Washington, D.C., June Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology PDF Bochenski, Z. Bird remains from Oblazowa - zoogeographical and evolutionary remarks.
"Dr. Hildegarde Howard, one of the Museum's most famous paleontologists of the 20th century, began her long association with the Museum in as a curator of science. In , she was the first woman to be awarded the American Ornithologists Union's prestigious Brewster Medal for her research in the field of avian paleontology, particularly. Olson, S.L. (Ed.) Avian Paleontology at the Close of the 20th Century: Proceedings of the 4th International Meeting of the Society of Avian Paleontology and Evolution, Washington, D.C., June Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology, pp. Frankfurt am Main, June Scottish publisher Robert Chambers anonymously published an extremely controversial but widely read book entitled Vestiges of the Natural History of book proposed an evolutionary scenario for the origins of the Solar System and life on Earth. It claimed that the fossil record showed a progressive ascent of animals with current animals being branches off a main line that. Boles, W. E., and Ivison, T. J., , A new genus of dwarf megapode (Galliformes: Megapodiidae) from the Late Oligocene of central Australia, in: Olson, S. L. (ed.), Avian Paleontology at the Close of the 20th Century: Proceedings of the 4th International Meeting of the Society of Avian Paleontology and Evolution, Washington, DC, pp. 4–7 Cited by: 8.
Avian paleontology at the close of the 20th century: proceedings of the 4th International meeting of the society of Avian paleontology and evolution, Washington, D.C., June Batrachosauria Campylognathoides liasicus (Quenstedt), an Upper Liassic pterosaur from Holzmaden: . The entire book is a very cursory overview with little detail. The six chapter book covers the entire 20th century in the final chapter which is hardly adequate. Both a history of science and a history of representation, the book starts off well but perhaps should have saved the twentieth century for a second by: 9. Geographical expansion of paleontology. During the 20th century, paleontological exploration intensified everywhere and ceased to be a largely European and North American activity. In the years between Buckland's first discovery and a total of dinosaur genera were described. In the 25 years after that number increased to In Avian paleontology at the close of the 20th century: Proceedings of the 4th International Meeting of the Society of Avian Paleontology and Evolution, Washington, D.C., 4–7 June , ed. S.L. Olson. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology –Cited by:
