Skeletons by ZALASIEWICZ, JAN -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover page Halftitle page Title page Copyright page Dedication page Contents Acknowledgements Prologue map 1. Skeletons Appear

The First True Skeletons Attack of the Soft Animals An Eruption of Skeletons Harder and Softer Skeletons Primordial Skeletons of Lilliput?

2. A Shell on the Outside

How Big is Big? Armour-Plated Animals Humpty Dumpty World Rise of the Planet of the Arthropods The Enduring Ostracods The Exoskeleton Invasion of Land The Seashells Jet-Propelled Exoskeletons Skeleton of the Argonauts The Building Trade The Slow Road to Success

3. A Shell on the Inside

The Armoured Fish The Earliest Vertebrates The Strangest Teeth Building Blocks of a Skeleton Tooth and Jaw, but Not Yet Claw Half Fish, Half Tetrapod Amphibians to Amniotes The ‘Not Quite Dinosaurs’ of the Permian Enter the Dinosaurs A Question of Size Reclaiming the Seas The Making of the Modern Skeleton A New Skeleton Diversity All Fours to Upright The Roots of Human Abundance From Hand to Mouth The ‘Hedgehog Skin’ Animals The Shape-Shifters

4. Plant Skeletons

Early Days The River Revolution The Moving Plant Skeletons The Grit in Grass

5. Mega-skeletons

The Coral Skeleton The Wider Reef The Deeper Reef The Larger Frameworks Bivalve Reefs of the Cretaceous The Ancient Reefs of the Palaeozoic

6. Mini-skeletons

A World Unseen The ‘Ur Animals’ An Amoeba within a Shell Challenging Times Ancient Mysteries and Whirling Dervishes Plankton in Glasshouses The Coccospheres

7. Flying Skeletons

Flying Kites Arthropods in the Air From Pterosaurs to Terror Birds The Birds Back to the Land: the Terror Birds Flying Mammals

8. Skeleton Archives

A Mollusc for all Seasons The Saw-tooth Foraminifera The Return of the Giant Tortoises Keeping Time in the Devonian The Warm Seas of the Ordovician Skeleton Coasts The Long Sleep of the Antarctic A Brief Royal Epilogue

9. Future Skeletons

Preparation for a Sequel Bones of the Sequel The Next Reef Gap? Designer Skeletons Augmented Bones Do-It-Yourself Skeletons

10. Skeletons on Alien Planets

Eozoön, or the Proto-skeleton That Wasn’t Micro-skeletons on Mars? Living Rocks? Living Stromatolites Martian Stromatolites? Diversifying Extraterrestrial Skeletons

Notes

Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10

References Figure Credits Index