The Complete DinosaurJames Orville Farlow, M. K. Brett-Surman Indiana University Press, 1997 - Всего страниц: 752 A highly illustrated celebration of dinosaurs for general readers, presenting a thorough survey from the earliest discoveries to contemporary controversies over extinction. Chapters are written by experts in fields including functional morphology, paleobiology, and biogeography, with sections on the discovery of dinosaurs, the study of dinosaurs, groups of dinosaurs, their biology, and dinosaur evolution. Highlights include discussion of new information on the warm-blooded/cold-blooded debate, new insights into the possibility of isolating dinosaur DNA, and a special section on dinosaurs in the media. While touted as accessible, treatment is sophisticated and assumes an educated and highly motivated readership. Includes a glossary, and bandw and color photos, drawings, paintings, and diagrams. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR |
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The Discovery of Dinosaurs | 1 |
The Study of Dinosaurs | 64 |
7 The Osteology of the Dinosaurs Thomas R Holtz Jr | 78 |
Dinosaurs and Geologic Time James O Farlow | 107 |
Rationale and Techniques for the Study | 136 |
Dinosaurs as Museum Exhibits Kenneth Carpenter | 150 |
Restoring Dinosaurs as Living Animals Douglas Henderson | 165 |
The Groups of Dinosaurs | 173 |
Dinosaur Eggs Karl F Hirsch and Darla K Zelenitsky | 394 |
How Dinosaurs Grew R E H Reid | 403 |
Engineering a Dinosaur R McNeill Alexander | 414 |
Dinosaurian Paleopathology Bruce M Rothschild | 426 |
The Case for Intermediate Dinosaurs | 449 |
Oxygen Isotopes in Dinosaur Bone Reese E Barrick Michael | 474 |
Modeling the Physiology of Large Dinosaurs | 491 |
New Insights into the Metabolic Physiology of Dinosaurs John Ruben | 505 |
Evolution of the Archosaurs J Michael Parrish | 191 |
Origin and Early Evolution of Dinosaurs Michael J Benton | 204 |
Theropods Philip J Currie | 216 |
Segnosaurs Therizinosaurs Teresa Maryańska | 234 |
Prosauropods Jacques VanHeerden | 242 |
Sauropods John S McIntosh M K BrettSurman and James | 264 |
Stegosaurs Peter M Galton | 291 |
Ankylosaurs Kenneth Carpenter | 307 |
Marginocephalians Catherine A Forster and Paul C Sereno | 317 |
Ornithopods M K BrettSurman | 330 |
Biology of the Dinosaurs | 347 |
What Did Dinosaurs Eat? Coprolites and Other Direct Evidence | 371 |
Dinosaur Combat and Courtship Scott Sampson | 383 |
The Scientific Study of Dinosaur Footprints James O Farlow | 519 |
The Paleoecological and Paleoenvironmental Utility of Dinosaur Tracks | 554 |
Dinosaur Evolution in the Changing | 579 |
Major Groups of NonDinosaurian Vertebrates of the Mesozoic Era | 607 |
Continental Tetrapods of the Early Mesozoic HansDieter Sues | 627 |
Dinosaurian Faunas of the Later Mesozoic Dale A Russell | 644 |
A Dialogue between a Catastrophist | 662 |
Dinosaurs and the Media Donald F Glut and M K BrettSurman | 675 |
A Chronological History of Dinosaur Paleontology M | 707 |
Glossary | 721 |
Contributors | 731 |
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