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020 _a9781316225769 (ebook)
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100 1 _aCuvier, Georges,
_cbaron,
_d1769-1832,
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aRecherches sur les ossemens fossiles des quadrupèdes.
_nVolume 3 /
_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.
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 (notably dentition) 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 3 of Recherches sur les ossemens fossiles recounts Cuvier's excitement at acquiring fossils from gypsum quarries near Paris, and the challenges of piecing the fragments together correctly. Cuvier describes the methodical reconstruction of the pachyderm fossils and lists other fossils occurring in the same rock formations: carnivores, an opossum, birds, reptiles, and fish.
650 0 _aVertebrates, Fossil.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_z9781108083775
830 0 _aCambridge library collection.
_pEarth science.
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316225769
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