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The Complete Dinosaur /

What do we know about dinosaurs, and how do we know it? How did dinosaurs grow, move, eat, and reproduce? Were they warm-blooded or cold-blooded? How intelligent were they? How are the various groups of dinosaurs related to each other, and to other kinds of living and extinct vertebrates? What can t...

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Otros Autores: Farlow, James Orville (Editor ), Holtz, Thomas R., 1965- (Editor ), Brett-Surman, M. K., 1950- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, 2012.
Edición:Second edition.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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490 0 |a Life of the past 
505 0 |a 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 [and others] -- 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 [and others] -- 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 [and others] -- The role of heterochrony in dinosaur evolution / Kenneth J. McNamara and John A. Long -- Metabolic physiology of dinosaurs and early birds / John A. Ruben [and others] -- 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. 
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