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A classic in the making : VERTEBRATE PALAEONTOLOGY (4th edition). By Michael J. Benton.

Eric Buffetaut

Cite this article: Eric Buffetaut, 2016. A classic in the making : VERTEBRATE PALAEONTOLOGY (4th edition). By Michael J. Benton. PalaeoVertebrata 40 (1)-e1. doi: 10.18563/pv.40.1.e1

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When the first edition of Mike Benton’s Vertebrate Palaeontology came out in 1990, sauropods still dragged their tails on the ground, the closest relatives of whales were mesonychids, and Mesozoic birds consisted essentially of Archaeopteryx, Ichthyornis and Hesperornis. Twenty-five years later, the book, now in its fourth edition, is a third longer, in a larger format and sports fine colour plates – in addition to a companion website.