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Oceans of Kansas, Second Edition : A Natural History of the Western Interior Sea /
Revised, updated, and expanded with the latest interpretations and fossil discoveries, the second edition of Oceans of Kansas adds new twists to the fascinating story of the vast inland sea that engulfed central North America during the Age of Dinosaurs. Giant sharks, marine reptiles called mosasaur...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore, Maryland :
Project Muse,
2017
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| Edición: | Second edition |
| Colección: | Life of the past.
Book collections on Project MUSE. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface to the second edition
- Preface to the first edition
- Introduction : an ocean in Kansas?
- Our discovery of the Western Interior Sea
- Invertebrates, plants, and trace fossils
- Sharks : sharp teeth and shell crushers
- Fishes, large and small
- Turtles : leatherback giants
- Where the elasmosaurs roamed
- Pliosaurs and polycotylids
- Enter the mosasaurs
- Pteranodons : rulers of the air
- Feathers and teeth
- Dinosaurs?
- The big picture
- Epilogue : where did it go?