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050		4	_aQE841 _b.C88 2015
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100	1		_aCuvier, Georges, _cbaron, _d1769-1832, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aRecherches sur les ossemens fossiles des quadrupèdes. _nVolume 2 / _cGeorges Cuvier.
264		1	_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c2015.
300			_a1 online resource (1 volume (various pagings)) : _bdigital, PDF file(s).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aCambridge library collection. Earth science
500			_aOriginally published in Paris by Deterville in 1812.
505	0		_a1. Remarques générales sur la famille des pachydermes -- 2. Description ostéologique et comparative du daman -- 3. Description ostéologique du rhinocéros unicorne -- 4 Sur les ossemens fossiles de rhinocéros -- 5. Sur l'hippopotame et sur son ostéologie -- 6. Sur les ossemens fossiles d'hippopotames -- 7. Description ostéologique du tapir -- 8. Sur les ossemens fossiles de tapir -- 9. Sur les éléphans vivans et fossiles -- 10. Sur le grand mastodonte, vulg. animal de l'Ohio -- 11. Sur divers mastodontes de moindre taille -- 12. Résumé général de cette premiére partie.
520			_aGeorges Cuvier (1769-1832), one of the founding figures of vertebrate palaeontology, pursued a successful scientific career despite the political upheavals in France during his lifetime. In the 1790s, Cuvier's work on fossils of large mammals including mammoths enabled him to show that extinction was a scientific fact. In 1812 Cuvier published this four-volume illustrated collection of his papers on palaeontology, osteology and stratigraphy. It was followed in 1817 by his famous Le règne animal, available in the Cambridge Library Collection both in French and in Edward Griffith's expanded English translation (1827-35). Volume 2 of Recherches sur les ossemens fossiles describes eleven species of pachyderm found in recent alluvial deposits. They include elephants, mastodons, rhinoceros, hippopotamus, tapir and the hyrax (which Cuvier classified as an ungulate rather than a rodent). Cuvier argued from osteological comparisons with living species that all should be considered distinct species in their own right.
650		0	_aVertebrates, Fossil.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z9781108083768
830		0	_aCambridge library collection. _pEarth science.
856	4	0	_uhttps://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316225745
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