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Jurassic West : the dinosaurs of the Morrison Formation and their world /
"The famous bone beds of the Morrison Formation, formed one hundred and fifty million years ago and running from Wyoming down through the red rock region of the American Southwest, have yielded one of the most complete pictures of any ancient vertebrate ecosystem in the world. Jurassic West, Se...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bloomington, Indiana :
Indiana University Press,
[2020]
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| Edición: | Second edition. |
| Colección: | Life of the past.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- JURASSIC WEST
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Preface to the Second Edition
- Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations
- 1 Rainbow Country: An Introduction to Morrison Formation Geology
- 2 Setting the Stage: Vertebrates and the Jurassic World
- 3 The Start of It All: The Morrison Vertebrates Come to Light
- 4 Renaissance: The Picture Fills In
- 5 Fins, Scales, and Wings: The Morrison Menagerie, Part I
- 6 Gargantuan to Minuscule: The Morrison Menagerie, Part II
- 7 The Mess and the Magic: Vertebrate Paleoecology of the Morrison Formation
- 8 Many Rivers to Cross: A Late Jurassic Journey across the Morrison Floodplain
- Epilogue: The Morrison Fauna in World Context
- Appendix A
- Appendix B
- Glossary
- Notes
- References
- Index