A festschrift, "Vertebrate fossils and their context: contributions in honor of Richard H. Tedford"; Number 279 in the series Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. Issued in November 2003, from New York City; softcover. OCLC 53809697. This is an original printing, *not* a print-on-demand product.
Finely printed on dull coated white paper. Illustrations, maps and figures are mostly black/white; two are in color. Minimal shelf wear; sun-bleaching on the spine and back cover shows how the adjacent book on the shelf was shorter. 659 numbered pages.
The title page bears an ink gift inscription from the editor, Lawrence J. Flynn, Assistant Director of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology: "To my dear colleagues and scientologue, Andrew Hill." Hill (1946–2015) was a British palaeoanthropologist and palaeontologist, and J. Clayton Stephenson Professor of Anthropology at Yale.
Contents include papers on the dispersals of Neogene carnivorans between Asia and North America; pack hunting in Miocene borophagine dogs; rodents from the Chinese Neogene; Tedford's gerbils from Afghanistan; and Phosphatochelys, a new side-necked turtle. Contributors: Peter J. Adam; Michael Archer; Jonathan N. Baskin; Brian Lee Beatty; Annalisa Berta; Thomas A. Darragh; Thomas A. Demere; Will Downs; Robert J. Emry; Ismael Ferrusquia-Villafranca; Lawrence J. Flynn; Eugene S. Gaffney; Gina C. Gould; Peter Holec; Robert M. Hunt Jr; E. Bruce Lander; Chuan-Kuei Li; Everett H. Lindsay; Spencer G. Lucas; Ernest L. Lundelius; Bruce J. MacFadden; Malcolm C. McKenna; Jin Meng; Gary S. Morgan; Michael J. Novacek; Neville S. Pledge; George O. Poinar Jr; Zhanxiang Qiu; Zhuding Qiu; Charles Albert Repenning; Patricia Vickers-Rich; Thomas H. V. Rich; Tyson Sacco; James Bowie Stevens; Margaret Skeels Stevens; Richard H. Tedford; Haiyan Tong; William D. Turnbull; Blaire Van Valkenburgh; Banyue Wang; Xiaoming Wang; S. David Webb; David P. Whistler; Alisa J. Winkler; Michael O. Woodburne; Wenyu Wu and Jie Ye.
The Bulletin has been published continuously since 1881; current numbers are published at irregular intervals. It presently comprises longer monographic volumes in the field of natural sciences relating to zoology, paleontology, and geology. In its original formulation, the Bulletin was a venue for short papers, while longer works appeared in the Memoirs. In the 1920s, the Memoirs ceased and the Bulletin series began publishing longer pieces.