| Description |
xvi, 460 pages, 14 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 26 cm |
| Contents |
Ch. 1. Introduction -- Ch. 2. The Mesozoic Era: Back to the Past -- Ch. 3. Discovering Order in the Natural World -- Ch. 4. Interrelationships of the Vertebrates -- Ch. 5. The Origin of Dinosauria -- Ch. 6. Stegosauria: Hot Plates -- Ch. 7. Ankylosauria: Mass and Gas -- Ch. 8. Pachycephalosauria: Head-to-Head, With Malice Aforethought -- Ch. 9. Ceratopsia: Horns, Frills, and Slice-and-Dice -- Ch. 10. Ornithopoda: The Tuskers, Antelopes, and the Mighty Ducks of the Mesozoic -- Ch. 11. Sauropodomorpha: The Big, the Bizarre, and the Majestic -- Ch. 12. Theropoda I: Nature Red in Tooth and Claw -- Ch. 13. Theropoda II: The Origin of Birds -- Ch. 14. Dinosaur Endothermy: Some Like It Hot -- Ch. 15. Dinosaurs in Space and Time -- Ch. 16. Reconstructing Extinctions: The Art of Science -- Ch. 17. The Cretaceous-Tertiary Extinction: The Frill is Gone -- Taxonomic Index of Genera |
| Summary |
A presentation of dinosaurs as they are viewed by paleontologists, using up-to-date methods to discuss what dinosaurs were, what they did, and how they did it, and studying the dinosaur in relation to the fuller concept of natural history |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Subject |
Dinosaurs -- Evolution.
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Extinction (Biology)
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| Author |
Weishampel, David B., 1952-
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| LC no. |
95006002 |
| ISBN |
0521444969 hardcover |
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