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Author Schouten, Peter.

Title The antipodean ark / illustrated by Peter Schouten ; editors, Suzanne Hand and Michael Archer
Published North Ryde, N.S.W. : Angus & Robertson, 1987

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Description 90 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Contents Introduction / by Michael Archer and Suzanne Hand -- The preparation and reconstruction of fossils / by Paul Willis and Jeanette Muirhead -- Permian fishes of Queensland's coal measures : Ebenaqua ritchiei ; Triassic lake dwellers of the Sydney basin : Saurichthys gigas, Gosfordia truncata, and Cleithrolepis granulata ; Jurassic fishes of Lake Talbragar, New South Wales : Aetheolepis mirabilis, Leptolepis gregarius, and Uarbryichthys latus / by Alex Ritchie -- The giant white pointer : Carcharodon megalodon / by Noel R. Kemp -- An ancient amphibian from Western Australia : Deltasaurus kimberleyensis ; An early marine amphibian? : Erythrobatrachus noonkanbahensis / by Anne Warren -- Broad-finned ichthyosaurs of Australia's inland seas : Platypterygius australis / by Alex Ritchie -- A sea-serpentine sauropterygian : Woolungasaurus glendowerensis / by Ralph Molnar -- A fish-eating crocodile from the South Pacific : "Gavialis" papuensis / by Paul Willis -- The minmi : Minmi paravertebra / by Ralph Molnar -- Cretaceous kangaroo mimics : Hypsilophodontidae and Camptosauridae species / by Tom Rich -- Precious relics from Lightning Ridge : Fulgurotherium australe / by Alex Ritchie -- An enigmatic brontosaur : Austrosaurus mckillopi / by Tony Thulborn -- The running birds of Alcoota : the species of Ilbandornis ; A giant bird of the Pleistocene : Genyornis newtoni / by Pat Rich -- The creature from the crater : a kannemeyeriid dicynodont / by Tony Thulborn -- A Cretaceous platypus : Steropodon galmani / by Tim Flannery -- Beginnings of the baleen whales : Mammalodon colliveri / by Ewan Fordyce -- "Thingodonta" : last remnant of an ancient group / by Michael Archer -- Forest ghosts in the desert : Ngapakaldia tedfordi ; A gentle giant from Central Australia : Plaisiodon centralis ; A marsupial mosaic : Euowenia grata / by Suzanne Hand -- The mountain diprotodontid : Hulitherium thomasettii / by Tim Flannery -- A possum of a very different kind : Chunia illuminata ; A wolf in kangaroo's clothing : Propleopus chillagoensis / by Michael Archer -- The giant short-faced kangaroo : Procoptodon goliah / by Tim Flannery -- Riversleigh scene 1 : crossing the threshold of eternity ; Riversleigh scene 2 : weird and familiar creatures in the forest primeval / by Michael Archer -- Riversleigh scene 3 : a fine time for possums and bats / by Michael Archer and Suzanne Hand -- Riversleigh scene 4 : Rackham's Roost--the beginnings of the modern world / by H. Godthelp -- New thoughts about old classifications
Analysis Evolution
Palaeontology
Vertebrates
Notes On cover: Creatures form prehistoric Australia
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 89-90
Subject Animals, Fossil -- Pictorial works.
Extinct vertebrates -- Australia.
Fossils.
Paleontology -- Australia -- Pictorial works.
Paleontology -- Australia.
Vertebrates -- Evolution -- Australia.
Vertebrates -- Evolution -- Australia -- Pictorial works.
Vertebrates, Fossil -- Pictorial works.
Vertebrates, Fossil -- Australia.
Vertebrates, Fossil.
Author Archer, Michael, 1945-
Hand, Suzanne.
LC no. 20715664
ISBN 0207156646
Other Titles Subtitle on cover: Creatures from prehistoric Australia