TY - BOOK AU - Ausich,William I. AU - Lane,N.Gary AU - Lane,N.Gary TI - Life of the past T2 - Prentice Hall earth science series SN - 0138960690 AV - QE711.2 .L35 1999 U1 - 560 21 PY - 1999///] CY - Upper Saddle River, N.J. PB - Prentice Hall KW - Paleontology N1 - Revised edition of: Life of the past / N. Gary Lane. 3rd ed. c1992; Includes bibliographical references and index; Time and fossils -- The organization of life -- Rocks and fossils -- Origins of earth, oceans, atmosphere, and life -- Organic evolution and extinction -- Continental drift and plate tectonics -- Paleobiogeography -- The Precambrian fossil record -- Introduction to marine communities and the Cambrian -- Paleozoic, Mesozoic, and Cenozoic ocean-bottom faunas -- The fossil record of plankton and nekton -- Marine predators -- Origin and early evolution of terrestrial communities -- Terrestrial primary producers: the land plants -- Early consumers on land: reptiles -- Advanced consumers on land: the mammals -- Primate and human evolution ER -