The complete dinosaur /

Praise for the first edition:"A gift to serious dinosaur enthusiasts" -Science "The amount of information in [these] pages is amazing. This book should be on the shelves of dinosaur freaks as well as those who need to know more about the paleobiology of extinct animals. It will be an...

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Other Authors: Brett-Surman, M. K., 1950-, Farlow, James Orville., Holtz, Thomas R., 1965-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, 2011.
Edition:2nd ed.
Series:Life of the past
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Dinosauria
  • Contributors
  • Part 1 The Discovery of Dinosaurs
  • 1 Dinosaurs: The Earliest Discoveries
  • 2 Politics and Paleontology: Richard Owen and the Invention of Dinosaurs
  • 3 European Dinosaur Hunters of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
  • 4 North American Dinosaur Hunters
  • 5 The Search for Dinosaurs in Asia
  • 6 Dinosaur Hunters of the Southern Continents
  • Part 2 The Study of Dinosaurs
  • 7 Hunting for Dinosaur Bones
  • 8 The Osteology of the Dinosaurs
  • 9 Reconstructing the Musculature of Dinosaurs
  • 10 Dinosaur Paleoneurology
  • 11 The Taxonomy and Systematics of the Dinosaurs
  • 12 Dinosaurs and Geologic Time
  • 13 Technology and the Study of Dinosaurs
  • 14 Claws, Scales, Beaks, and Feathers: Molecular Traces in the Fossil Record
  • 15 Dinosaurs as Museum Exhibits
  • 16 Restoring Dinosaurs as Living Animals
  • Part 3 The Clades of Dinosaurs
  • 17 Evolution of the Archosaurs
  • 18 Origin and Early Evolution of Dinosaurs
  • 19 Theropods
  • 20 Birds
  • 21 Basal Sauropodomorpha: The "Prosauropods"
  • 22 Sauropoda
  • 23 Stegosaurs
  • 24 Ankylosaurs
  • 25 Marginocephalia
  • 26 Ornithopods
  • Part 4 Paleobiology of the Dinosaurs
  • 27 Land Plants as a Source of Food and Environment in the Age of Dinosaurs
  • 28 What Did Dinosaurs Eat: Coprolites and Other Direct Evidence of Dinosaur Diets
  • 29 Reproductive Biology of Dinosaurs
  • 30 Dinosaur Eggs
  • 31 How Dinosaurs Grew
  • 32 Engineering a Dinosaur
  • 33 Disease in Dinosaurs
  • 34 The Scientific Study of Dinosaur Footprints
  • 35 The Role of Heterochrony in Dinosaur Evolution
  • 36 Metabolic Physiology of Dinosaurs and Early Birds
  • 37 Evidence for Avian-Mammalian Aerobic Capacity and Thermoregulation in Mesozoic Dinosaurs
  • 38 "Intermediate" Dinosaurs: The Case Updated
  • Part 5 Dinosaur Evolution in the Mesozoic.
  • 39 Principles of Paleobiogeography in the Mesozoic
  • 40 Non-Dinosaurian Vertebrates
  • 41 Early Mesozoic Continental Tetrapods and Faunal Changes
  • 42 Dinosaurian Faunas of the Later Mesozoic
  • 43 Dinosaur Extinction: Past and Present Perspectives
  • 44 Life after Death: Dinosaur Fossils in Human Hands
  • 45 Dinosaurs and Evolutionary Theory
  • Appendix: Dinosaur-Related Websites
  • Glossary
  • Index
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