The Princeton Field Guide to Dinosaurs /
Provides comprehensive visual and textual coverage of the great Mesozoic animals that gave rise to the living dinosaurs, the birds.
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
2010.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- History of discovery and research
- What is a dinosaur?
- Dating dinosaurs
- The evolution of dinosaurs and their world
- Extinction
- After the age of dinosaurs
- Biology
- General anatomy
- Skin, feathers, and color
- Respiration and circulation
- Digestive tracts
- Senses
- Vocalization
- Disease and pathologies
- Behavior
- Brains, nerves, and intelligence
- Social activities
- Reproduction
- Growth
- Energetics
- Gigantism
- Mesozoic oxygen
- The evolution-and loss-of avian flight
- Dinosaur safari
- If dinosaurs survived
- Dinosaur conservation
- Where dinosaurs are found
- Using the group and species descriptions
- Group and species accounts: Dinosaurs
- Theropods
- Sauropodomorphs
- Ornithischians
- Additional reading
- Index: dinosaur taxa
- Formations.