Pleistocene Amphibians And Reptiles In Britain And Europe (oxford Monographs On Geology And Geophysics)

OXFORD MONOGRAPHS ON GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS Series Editors H. Charnock J. R Dewey S. Conway Morris A. Navrotsky E. R. Oxburgh R. A. Price B. J. Skinner OXFORD MONOGRAPHS ON GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS 1. DeVerle P. Harris: Mineral Resources Appraisal: Mineral Endowment, Resources, and Potential Supply: Concepts, Methods, and Cases 2. i. ]. Veevers (ed.): Phanerozoic Earth History of Australia 3. Yang Zunyi, Cheng Yuqi, and Wang Hongzhen (eds.): The Geology of China 4. Lin-Gun Liu and William A. Bassett: Elements, Oxides, and Silicates: High-Pressure Phases with Implications for the Earth's Interior 5. Antoni Hoffman and Matthew H. Nitecki (eds.): Problematic Fossil Taxa 6. S. Mahmood Naqvi and John J. W. Rogers: Precambrian Geology of India 1. Chih-Pei Chang and T. N. Krishnamurti (eds.): Monsoon Meteorology 8. Zvi Ben-Avraham (ed.): The Evolution of the Pacific Ocean Margins 9. Ian McDougall and T. Mark Harrison: Geochronology and Thermochronology by the 40Ar/39Ar Method 10. Walter C. Sweet: The Conodonta: Morphology, Taxonomy, Paleoecology, and Evolutionary History of a Long-Extinct Animal Phylum 11. H. J. Melosh: Impact Cratering: A Geologic Process (now in paperback) 12. J. W. Cowie and M. D. Brasier (eds.): The Precambrian-Cambrian Boundary 13. C. S. Hutchinson: Geological Evolution of South-East Asia 14. Anthony J. Naldrett: Magmatic Sulfide Deposits 15. D. R. Prothero and R. M. Schoch (eds.): The Evolution of Perissodactyls 16. M. Menzies (ed.): Continental Mantle 17. R. J. Tingey (ed.): Geology of the Antarctic 18. Thomas J. Crowley and Gerald R. North: Paleoclimatology (now in paperback) 19. Gregory J. Retallack: Miocene Paleosols and Ape Habitats in Pakistan and Kenya 20. Kuo-Nan Liou: Radiation and Cloud Processes in the Atmosphere: Theory, Observation and Modeling 21. Brian Bayly: Chemical Change in Deforming Materials 22. A. K. Gibbs and C. N. Barron: The Geology of the Guiana Shield 23. Peter J. Ortoleva: Geochemical Self-Organization 24. Robert G. Coleman: Geologic Evolution of the Red Sea 25. Richard W. Spinrad, Kendall L. Carder, and Mary Jane Perry: Ocean Optics 26. Clinton M. Case: Physical Principles of Flow in Unsatura ted Porous Media 27. Eric B. Kraus and Joost A. Businger: Atmosphere-Ocean Interaction, Second Edition 28. M. Solomon and D. I. Groves: The Geology and Origins of Australia's Mineral Deposits 29. R. L. Stanton: Ore Elements in Arc Lavas 30. P. Wignall: Black Shales 31. Orson L. Anderson: Equations of State for Solids in Geophysics and Ceramic Science 32. J. Alan Holman: Pleistocene Amphibians and Reptiles in North America 33. P. Janvier: Early Vertebrates 34. David S. O'Hanley: Serpentinites: Recorders of Tectonic and Petrological History 35. Charles S. Hutchison: South-East Oil, Gas, Coal and Mineral Deposits 36. Maarten J. de Wit and Lewis D. Ashwal (eds.): Greenstone Belts 37. Tina Niemi, Zvi Ben-Avraham, and Joel R. Gat: The Dead Sea: The Lake and Its Setting 38. J. Alan Holman: Pleistocene Amphibians and Reptiles in Britain and Europe PLEISTOCENE AMPHIBIANS AND REPTILES IN BRITAIN AND EUROPE J. Alan Holman New York • Oxford Oxford University Press 1998 Oxford University Press Oxford New York Athens Auckland Bangkok Bogota Bombay Buenos Aires Calcutta Cape Town Dar es Salaam Delhi Florence Hong Kong Istanbul Karachi Kuala Lumpur Madras Madrid Melbourne Mexico City Nairobi Paris Singapore Taipei Tokyo Toronto Warsaw and associated companies in Berlin Ibadan Copyright © 1998 by Oxford University Press, Inc. Published by Oxford University Press, Inc. 198 Madison Avenue, New York, New York 10016 Oxford is a