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Introduction to the Sphenodontidae
Provides information on the pleurosaurs and the Tuatara, the only species of sphenodontid alive today and little changed in appearance from the sphenodontids living 150 million years ago.
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/diapsids/lepidos/sphenodontidae.html
Top/Science/Earth_Sciences/Paleontology/Vertebrates

Are Birds Really Dinosaurs?
A DinoBuzz article covering the theory, and objections towards it, of the dinosaurian origin of birds.
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/diapsids/avians.html
Top/Science/Earth_Sciences/Paleontology/Vertebrates/Birds

Dendrerpeton acadianum
An early temnospondyl found in petrified tree stumps from Joggins, Nova Scotia.
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/carboniferous/joggins.html
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Introduction to the Actinopterygii
Provides information on the ray-finned fishes including their fossil record, life history, ecology, systematics and morphology.
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/vertebrates/actinopterygii/actinintro.html
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Fossil Record of the Chiroptera
The UMCP webpage on fossil bats
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/mammal/eutheria/chirofr.html
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Introduction to Multituberculates
Provides information on this major branch of mammals with a 100 million year fossil history which became completely extinct and have no living descendants.
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/mammal/multis/multis.html
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Barnosky, A.D.
Mammalian evolutionary paleobiology (University of California Museum of Paleontology).
http://ib.berkeley.edu/faculty/barnoskya.html
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Clemens, W.A.
Mammalian evolutionary paleobiology, ((University of California Museum of Paleontology).
http://ib.berkeley.edu/faculty/clemensw.html
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The Ichthyosaur Page
While dinosaurs ruled the land, the ichthyosaurs shared the seas of the world with the other great groups of large marine reptiles, the plesiosaurs and mosasaurs.
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/people/motani/ichthyo/index.html
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Introduction to the Ichthyosauria
Provides information on the ichthyosaurs which shared the seas of the world with the other great groups of large marine reptiles, the plesiosaurs and mosasaurs, while the dinosaurs dominated the land.
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/diapsids/ichthyosauria.html
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