Plavcan, J Michael et al. (editors)

Reconstructing Behavior in the Primate Fossil Record.

New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 2002. First edition. Pp. xi, 437; numerous text-figures (graphs, cladograms, and line-drawings). Color pictorial laminated boards (hardcover), lg 8vo. This volume contains 11 chapters by noted authorities in the field on the topic of reconstructing various aspects of primate behavior from diet to social systems. The evidence for the reconstructions is based on models of adaptation, ontogenetic analyses, paleo-environmental and paleo-community analyses, experimental functional analysis and comparative socioecology. No ownership marks and no signs of use. Corner clipped from endpaper; a bright and clean copy in fine condition..

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Book number: 6139

Catalogue: Paleontology

Radinsky, L.

Evolution of the Felid Brain

Basel: S. Karger, 1975. First edition. Pp. 214-254; 12 text-figures. Printed self-wrappers, 8vo. From: Brain, Behavior and Evolution, volume 11. Radinsky examines the endocasts of 15 genera of fossil felids from the past 35 million years and compares them with the endocasts of 27 modern felid species. From the research library of marine mammal paleontologist Edward Mitchell with his circular name stamp on the front wrapper. At the page bottom is the following statement: 1976 March 5, received from the author. No other ownership marks and no signs of use. A bright copy in fine (new) condition..

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Book number: 8378

Catalogue: Paleontology

Radinsky, Leonard B.

A review of the rhinocerotoid family Hyracodontidae (Perissodactyla)

New York: American Museum, 1967. First edition. Pp. 46, 1 black-and-white photo-plate, 25 text-figures (line-drawings). Original printed blue wrappers, sm 4to. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History volume 136, article 1. From the research library of marine mammal paleontologist Edward Mitchell with his name stamp on the front wrapper along with the date the work was received from the author. Light edge wear to wrappers and slight bump to one corner; a tight copy in very good condition..

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Book number: 8379

Catalogue: Paleontology

Rao, K. S. and Rao, S. R. N.

The Fossil Charophyta of the Deccan Inter-Trappeans near Rajahmundry (India).

Calcutta: Geological Survey of India, 1939. First edition. Pp. (6), 14; 3 full page photo-plates. Publisher's original tan printed wrappers, folio. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India, Palaeontologia Indica, new series, volume 29, memoir no. 2. The Charophyta are a division of green algae that includes the closest relatives of the embryophyte plants. No ownership marks. Light edge wear to wrappers especially along the spine; a clean copy in very good condition..

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Book number: 5067

Catalogue: Paleontology

Keywords: Paleontology geology fossil Charophyta green algae Deccan Inter-Trappeans Rajahmundry India Asia plant evolution Rao

Ravn, J. P. J.

Molluskerne i Danmarks Kridtaflejringer, Parts I-III: I. Lamellibranchiater; II. Scaphopoder, Gastropoder og Cephalopoder; III. Stratigrafiske Undersøgelser; + Det Kongelige danske Videnskabernes Selskabs Skrifter (3 Parts + appendix, bound in one volume)

København (Copenhagen): Bianco Lunos, 1902-03. First edition. Pp. (iv), 70-138 (4); (4), 209-270; (4), 339-445, xvi; 10 full page black-and-white plates of fossil invertebrates, 1 map, 1 black-and-white photo of geological section in appendix. Cloth-backed early marbled boards, with paper title label on spine, sm 4to. Danske Videnskabernes Selskabs Skrifter Nat. Vid. 6, vols. 11.2 + 11.4 + 11.6. From the research library of paleontologist A. K. Miller with his book plate and signature on the front attached wrapper. No other ownership marks. Faint marginal damp stain to last 30 pages, cloth on spine is lightly worn, spine is a bit canted; a tight and clean copy in very good condition..

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Book number: 8590

Catalogue: Paleontology

Reed, F.R. Cowper

The Lower Palaeozoic Faunas of the Southern Shan States.

Calcutta: Geological Survey of India, 1936. First edition. Pp. x, 130; 7 full page plates (black-and-white photographs or halftone drawings). Publisher's original printed tan wrappers, folio. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India, new series, volume 21, no. 3. Covers the trilobites, brachiopods, gastropods, bryozoans, crustaceans and other invertebrates of the Ordovician and Silurian limestones of the Shan States in central eastern Burma. No ownership marks. Light foxing to the wrappers, spine signatures are loose due to loss of paper backing; overall a good solid copy..

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Book number: 6204

Catalogue: Paleontology

Rensberger, J. M.

Pleurolicine Rodents (Geomyoidea) of the John Day Formation, Oregon and their relationships to taxa from the early and middle Miocene, South Dakota

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1973. First edition. Pp. vi, 1-95; 17 full page black-and-white photo-plates, 40 text-figures (line drawings, diagrams, maps). Original printed cream-color wrappers, lettered in black on the spine and front cover, lg 8vo. University of California Publications in Geological Sciences, volume 102. From the library of marine paleontologist Edward Mitchell with circular name stamp on the front wrapper. No other ownership marks. A bright and clean copy in near fine condition..

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Book number: 8352

Catalogue: Paleontology

Rich, Thomas H. V.

Deltatheridia, Carnivora, and Condylarthra (Mammalia) of the early Eocene, Paris Basin, France

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1971. First edition. Pp. (4), 72; 18 text-figures (all line-drawings). Original cream-colored wrappers, lettered in black on the spine and front cover, lg 8vo. University of California Publications in Geological Sciences, volume 88. From the library of marine vertebrate paleontologist Edward D. Mitchell with his circular name-stamp and date received on the front wrapper. No other ownership marks. A bright and clean copy in near fine condition..

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Book number: 8341

Catalogue: Paleontology

Ringstrom, Torsten

Nashorner der Hipparion-Fauna Nord-Chinas (Palaeontologia Sinica, series C, volume 1, fascicle 4)

Peking: Geological Survey of China, 1924. First edition. Pp. (4), 156, (4); 12 full-page black-and-white plates, each with a descriptive leaf of text, 92 text-figures (mostly line-drawings). Original printed olive green wrappers, 4to. This monograph describes the rhinoceros of the Hipparion fauna of northern China. From the series: Palaeontologia Sinica, Series C, Volume 1, Fascicle 4. The text is in German. No ownership marks and no signs of use. Some chipping to wrappers at the top of the spine, faint marginal sunning to the outer wrappers, the text is very bright and clean; a tight and clean copy in near fine condition..

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Book number: 7355

Catalogue: Paleontology

Roy, S.K.

The Upper Ordovician Fauna of Frobisher Bay, Baffin Island.

Chicago: Field Museum, 1941. First edition. Pp. 212; 146 text-figures. Later red cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine (original gray printed wrappers bound in place), 4to. Field Museum of Natural History Memoirs, volume. 2. No ownership marks and no signs of use. A bright and clean copy in near fine condition..

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Book number: 5418

Catalogue: Paleontology

Keywords: Paleontology invertebrate paleontology Ordovician fauna fossils Frobisher Bay Baffin Island Nunavut Canada North America Field Museum of Natural History Memoirs volume 2 Roy

Russell, Donald E., Louis, Pierre, and Savage, Donald E.

Chiroptera and Dermoptera of the French Early Eocene

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1973. First edition. Pp. (iv), 1-57; 13 text-figures (line drawings, phylogenies). Original printed cream-color wrappers, lettered in black on the spine and front cover, lg 8vo. University of California Publications in Geological Sciences, volume 95. From the library of marine paleontologist Edward Mitchell with circular name stamp on the front wrapper. No other ownership marks. A bright and clean copy in near fine condition..

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Book number: 8353

Catalogue: Paleontology

Russell, Donald E., Louis, Pierre, and Savage, Donald E.

Chiroptera and Dermoptera of the French Early Eocene

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1973. First edition. Pp. (iv), 1-57; 13 text-figures (line drawings, phylogenies). Original printed cream-color wrappers, lettered in black on the spine and front cover, lg 8vo. University of California Publications in Geological Sciences, volume 95. List of authors printed along the top margin of the front wrapper, also note at the bottom outer margin that this paper was received from the Museum of Paleontology, 1974, March 21, U. C. Berkeley. No ownership marks. A bright and clean copy in near fine condition..

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Book number: 8354

Catalogue: Paleontology

Russell, D. E.

Les Mammiferes Paleocenes d'Europe

Paris: Editions du Museum, 1964. First edition. Pp. 324; 16 full page black-and-white photographic plates, each with a descriptive leaf of text, 60 text-figures (all fine line-drawings of fossils or geologic sections). Original gray printed wrappers, sm 4to. Memoires du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Series C, volume 13. This large, well-researched monograph describes the Paleocene mammalian faunas of Europe. It is Donald Russell's thesis for a French graduate degree. From the research library of marine vertebrate paleontologist Edward Mitchell with his signature on the front wrapper. A note by Mitchell on the bottom edge of the front wrapper states ""Received from author 3 June 1964."" Bump to the top outer corner of volume, some chipping to paper on the top edge of the spine, overall a tight and clean copy in very good condition..

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Book number: 8371

Catalogue: Paleontology

Russell, Donald E.

Le Paleocene Continental d'Amerique du Nord

Paris: Editions du Museum, 1967. First edition. Pp. 38-99; 3 text-figures. Original printed gray wrappers, lg 8vo. Mémoires du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle N.S. Ser. C, vol. 16, fasc. 2. From the library of marine vertebrate paleontologist Edward Mitchell with his signature on the front wrapper. A bright and clean copy in near fine condition with the pages unopened..

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Book number: 8358

Catalogue: Paleontology

Russell, Donald E., Louis, Pierre and Savage, Donald E.

Primates of the French Early Eocene

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1967. First edition. Pp. v, 44; 13 text-figures (line-drawings), triple-page foldout phylogeny of late Paleocene to early Oligocene primates in Europe. Original cream-colored stiff wrappers lettered in black on the spine and front cover, lg 8vo. University of California Publications in Geological Sciences, volume 73. Describes new primate species from the early Eocene deposits of the Paris Basin. From the library of marine vertebrate paleontologist Edward D. Mitchell with his name stamp on the front wrapper. The front wrapper is also stamped ""Received from author, May 3, 1968."" Bottom inner corner with small bump; a tight and clean copy in near fine condition..

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Book number: 8368

Catalogue: Paleontology