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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.

Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Paul, Gregory S.
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2010.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.