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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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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bloomington, Ind. :
Indiana University Press,
2012.
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| Edición: | Second edition. |
| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.