Dinosaurs : a concise natural history

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"[This work] encourages students to ask questions, assess data critically and think like a scientist. Building on the success of previous editions, Dinosaurs has been reorganized and extensively rewritten in response to instructor and student feedback. This edition has been thoroughly updated to include new discoveries in the field, such as the toothed bird specimens found in China and recent discoveries of dinosaur soft anatomy. Illustrations by...

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ISBN:

9781108469296

Edition:

Fourth edition

Description:

xiv, 521 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (colour) ; 29 cm

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents:

Part I. Remembrance of things past: To catch a dinosaur ; Dinosaur days ; Who's related to whom: and how do we know? ; Who are the dinosaurs? ; In the beginning
Part II. Saurischia: meat, might and magnitude: Theropoda I: nature red in tooth and claw ; Theropoda II: meet the theropods ; Theropoda III: the origin and early evolution of birds ; Sauropodomorpha: the big, the bizarre, and the majestic
Part III. Ornithischia: armored, horned, and duck-billed dinosaurs: Thyreophora: the armor-bearers ; Marginocephalia: bumps, bosses, and beaks ; Ornithopoda: mighty Mesozoic masticators
Part IV. Endothermy, endemism, and extinction: The paleobiology of dinosaurs I ; The paleobiology of dinosaurs II: dinosaur metabolism: some like it hot ; The flowering of the Mesozoic ; A history of dinosaur paleontology through the ideas of dinosaur paleontologists ; The Cetaceous-Paleogene extinction: the frill is gone

Control Number:

3399412

Other Authors:

Sibbick, John, illustrator
Weishampel, David B., 1952- author

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