xii, 1112 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
Notes:
Includes index Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents:
Dinosaurs : the earliest discoveries / David A.E. Spalding and William A.S. Sarjeant Politics and paleontology : Richard Owen and the invention of dinosaurs / Hugh S. Torrens European dinosaur hunters of the 19th and 20th centuries / Hans-Dieter Sues North American dinosaur hunters / Edwin H. Colbert, David D. Gillette, and Ralph E. Molnar The search for dinosaurs in Asia / Corwin Sullivan, David W.E. Hone, and Xing Xu Dinosaur hunters of the southern continents / Thomas R. Holtz Jr. Hunting for dinosaur bones / David D. Gillette The osteology of the dinosaurs / Thomas R. Holtz Jr. and M.K. Brett-Surman Reconstructing the musculature of dinosaurs / David W. Dilkes ... [et al.] Dinosaur paleoneurology / Emily Buchholtz The taxonomy and systematics of the dinosaurs / Thomas R. Holtz Jr. and M.K. Brett-Surman Dinosaurs and geologic time / James I. Kirkland and James O. Farlow Technology and the study of dinosaurs / Ralph E. Chapman ... [et al.] Claws, scales, beaks, and feathers : molecular traces in the fossil record / Mary Higby Schweitzer and Mark Marshall Dinosaurs as museum exhibits / Kenneth Carpenter Restoring dinosaurs as living animals / Douglas Henderson Evolution of the archosaurs / J. Michael Parrish Origin and early evolution of dinosaurs / Michael J. Benton Theropods / Thomas R. Holtz Jr. Birds / Darren Naish Basal Sauropodomorpha : the "prosauropods" / Adam M. Yates Sauropoda / Jeffrey A. Wilson and Kristina Curry Rogers Stegosaurs / Peter M. Galton Ankylosaurs / Kenneth Carpenter Marginocephalia / Peter Makovicky Ornithopods / Richard J. Butler and Paul M. Barrett Land plants as a source of food and environment in the age of dinosaurs / Bruce H. Tiffney What did dinosaurs eat : coprolites and other direct evidence of dinosaur diets / Karen Chin Reproductive biology of dinosaurs / Terry D. Jones and Nicholas R. Geist Dinosaur eggs / Darla K. Zelenitsky, John R. Horner, and François Therrien How dinosaurs grew / R.E.H. Reid (with introductory note by Gregory M. Erickson) Engineering a dinosaur / Donald Henderson Disease in dinosaurs / Elizabeth Rega The scientific study of dinosaur footprints / James O. Farlow ... [et al.] The role of heterochrony in dinosaur evolution / Kenneth J. McNamara and John A. Long Metabolic physiology of dinosaurs and early birds / John A. Ruben ... [et al.] Evidence for avian-mammalian aerobic capacity and thermoregulation in Mesozoic dinosaurs / Gregory S. Paul "Intermediate" dinosaurs : the case updated / R.E.H. Reid Principles of paleobiogeography in the Mesozoic / Ralph E. Molnar Non-dinosaurian vertebrates / Nicholas C. Fraser Early Mesozoic continental tetrapods and faunal changes / Hans-Dieter Sues Dinosaurian faunas of the later Mesozoic / Matthew T. Carrano Dinosaur extinction : past and present perspectives / J. David Archibald Life after death : dinosaur fossils in human hands / Daniel J. Chure Dinosaurs and evolutionary theory / Kevin Padian and Elizabeth K. Burton
