Download or read book Chinese Fossil Vertebrates written by Spencer G. Lucas and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2002-01-30 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a comprehensive, chronologically ordered review of China's vertebrate fossil record. It also presents a history of vertebrate paleontological studies in China and an entrée to some important issues of systematics, evolutionary history, paleoecology, taphonomy, and functional anatomy best elucidated by China's fossils.