The evolution and extinction of the dinosaurs
Fastovsky, David E.2005
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Detailed survey of dinosaur origins, their diversity, and their eventual extinction. The book is written as a series of essays covering important and timely topics in dinosaur paleontology and natural history.
Main title:
The evolution and extinction of the dinosaurs / by David E. Fastovsky and David B. Weishampel
Imprint:
Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2005
Collation:
485 p. illustrations maps
Contents:
Introduction -- Back to the past: the Mesozoic era -- Discovering order in the natural world -- Interrelationships of vertebrates -- The origin of the dinosauria -- Stegosauria: hot plates -- Ankylosauria: mass and gas -- Pachycephalosauria: ramrods of the Cretaceous -- Ceratopsia: horns and all the frills -- Ornithopoda: the tuskers, antelopes, and 'mighty ducks' of the Mesozoic -- Sauropodomorpha: the big, the bizarre, and the majestic -- Theropoda I: nature red in tooth and claw -- Theropoda II: the origin of birds -- Theropoda III: the early evolution of birds -- Dinosaur thermoregulation: some like it hot -- Patterns in dinosaur evolution -- Reconstructing extinctions: the art of science -- The Cretaceous - tertiary extinction: the frill is gone
ISBN:
0521811724 (hbk)
Dewey class:
567.9 EVO
Local class:
567.9
Language:
English
BRN:
60854
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