Fish Out of Water 243For Further Reading
So much new information has now been discovered that I highly recommend reading the
books by Zimmer (1998) and Clack (2002) to get the full story. Other useful references are
also mentioned (not all of which were published before the new discoveries).
Anderson, J. S., R. R. Reisz, D. Scott, N. B. Fröbisch, and S. S. Sumida. 2008. A stem batrachian from
the Early Permian of Texas and the origin of frogs and salamanders. Nature 453:515–518.
Benton, M. J. 2014. Vertebrate Palaeontology. 4th ed. New York: Wiley-Blackwell.
Carroll, R. L. 1988. Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution. New York: Freeman.
Clack, J. A. 2002. Gaining Ground: The Origin and Early Evolution of Tetrapods. Bloomington: Indiana
University Press.
Daeschler, E. B., N. H. Shubin, and F. A. Jenkins Jr. 2006. A Devonian tetrapod-like fish and the evolu-
tion of the tetrapod body plan. Nature 440:757–773.
Long, J. A. 2010. The Rise of Fishes, 2nd ed. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press.
Maisey, J. G. 1996. Discovering Fossil Fishes. New York: Holt.
Moy-Thomas, J., and R. S. Miles. 1971. Palaeozoic Fishes. Philadelphia: Saunders.
Prothero, D. R. 2013. Bringing Fossils to Life: An Introduction to Paleobiology, 3rd ed. New York: Columbia
University Press.
Shubin, N. H., E. B. Daeschler, and F. A. Jenkins Jr. 2006. The pectoral fin of Tiktaalik roseae and the
origins of the tetrapod limb. Nature 440:764–771.
Standen, E. M., T. Y. Du, and H. C. E. Larsson. 2014. Developmental plasticity and the origin of tetra-
pods. Nature 513: 54–58.
Thomson, K. S. 1991. Living Fossil. New York: Norton.
Weinberg, S. 2000. A Fish Caught in Time: The Search for the Coelacanth. New York: HarperCollins.
Zimmer, C. 1998. At the Water’s Edge: Macroevolution and the Transformation of Life. New York: Free Press.