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Mesozoic Vertebrate Life

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ISBN-10: 0253339073

ISBN-13: 9780253339072

Edition: 2001

Authors: Darren H. Tanke, Kenneth Carpenter, Darren H. Tanke, Darren H. Tanke

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List price: $49.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 7/18/2001
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 600
Size: 7.50" wide x 10.25" long x 1.75" tall
Weight: 2.992

Kenneth Carpenter is the dinosaur paleontologist for the Denver Museum of Natural History. He is author of Eggs, Nests, and Baby Dinosaurs (IUP, 2000), editor of The Armored Dinosaurs (IUP, 2001), and co-editor of Mesozoic Vertebrate Life (with Darren H. Tanke, IUP, 2001). He is also co-editor of Dinosaur Systematics; Dinosaur Eggs and Babies; and The Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation.

Contributors
Foreword: Introduction to Philip Currie
Acknowledgments
Theropods
New Theropod from the Late Cretaceous of Patagonia
On the Type and Referred Material of Laelaps trihedrodon Cope 1877 (Dinosauria: Theropoda)
Endocranial Anatomy of Carcharodontosaurus saharicus (Theropoda: Allosauroidea) and Its Implications for Theropod Brain Evolution
Lower Jaw of Gallimimus bullatus
Late Cretaceous Oviraptorosaur (Theropoda) Dinosaurs from Montana
Tooth-Marked Small Theropod Bone: An Extremely Rare Trace
The Phylogeny and Taxonomy of the Tyrannosauridae
A Kerf-and-Drill Model of Tyrannosaur Tooth Serrations
Forelimb Osteology and Biomechanics of Tyrannosaurus rex
Feathered Dinosaurs and the Origin of Flight
Sauropods
New Titanosauriform (Sauropoda) from the Poison Strip Member of the Cedar Mountain Formation (Lower Cretaceous), Utah
Gastroliths from the Lower Cretaceous Sauropod Cedarosaurus weiskopfae
Ornithischians
New Ornithopod from the Cedar Mountain Formation (Lower Cretaceous) of Eastern Utah
A Baby Ornithopod from the Morrison Formation of Garden Park, Colorado
Evidence of Hatchling- and Nestling-Size Hadrosaurs (Reptilia: Ornithischia) from Dinosaur Provincial Park (Dinosaur Park Formation: Campanian), Alberta
Taphonomy and Paleoenvironment of a Hadrosaur (Dinosauria) from the Matanuska Formation (Turonian) in South-Central Alaska
Primitive Armored Dinosaur from the Lufeng Basin, China
A Montanoceratops cerorhynchus (Dinosauria: Ceratopsia) Braincase from the Horseshoe Canyon Formation of Alberta
Speculations on the Socioecology of Ceratopsid Dinosaurs (Ornithischia: Neoceratopsia)
Dinosaurian Faunas
Dinosaurs of Alberta (exclusive of Aves)
Two Medicine Formation, Montana: Geology and Fauna
Late Cretaceous Dinosaur Provinciality
Paleopathologies
Theropod Stress Fractures and Tendon Avulsions as a Clue to Activity
Theropod Paleopathology: A Literature Survey
Dinosaurian Humeral Periostitis: A Case of a Juxtacortical Lesion in the Fossil Record
Pathological Amniote Eggshell - Fossil and Modern
Ichnology
The Impact of Sedimentology on Vertebrate Track Studies
Acrocanthosaurus and the Maker of Comanchean Large-Theropod Footprints
Trackways of Large Quadrupedal Ornithopods from the Cretaceous: A Review
First Reports of Bird and Ornithopod Tracks from the Lakota Formation (Early Cretaceous), Black Hills, South Dakota
New Ichnotaxa of Bird and Mammal Footprints from the Lower Cretaceous (Albian) Gates Formation of Alberta
Dinosaurs and Human History
Bones of Contention: Charles H. Sternberg's Lost Dinosaurs
Dinosaurs in Fiction
Publications of Philip John Currie
Index