Dinosaur Provincial Park A Spectacular Ancient Ecosystem Revealed

Name: Dinosaur Provincial Park A Spectacular Ancient Ecosystem Revealed
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ISBN: 9780253345950

ISBN-10: 0253345952

ISBN-13: 9780253345950

Edition: 2005

Authors: Philip J. Currie, Eva B. Koppelhus, Eva B. Koppelhus, Eva B. Koppelhus

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This text is a scientific overview of Dinosaur Provincial Park in Alberta, Canada - its flora and fauna, its major fossil discoveries and its ecology. The park is one of the grand natural locales in the world and has produced an abundance of fossils of every known group of dinosaurs from the Cretaceous period.

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List price: $49.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 9/8/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 672
Size: 7.25" wide x 10.25" long x 2.00" tall
Weight: 3.630
Language: English

Philip J. Currie is Curator of Dinosaurs at the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology. He is co-editor (with Eva B. Koppelhus) of Feathered Dragons: Studies on the Transition from Dinosaurs to Birds (IUP, 2004). He lives in Drumheller, Alberta.Eva B. Koppelhus is an adjunct research scientist at the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology. She lives in Drumheller, Alberta.



Foreword



Preface




History of research




Identifying lost quarries




The geology




Paleomagnetostratigraphy




Vertebrate microfossil sites and their contribution to studies of paleoecology




Campanian palynomorphs




Paleobotany




Paleoecology of mollusks from the Upper Cretaceous Belly River group




Fishes of the fluvial beds




Lissamphibians




Turtles : diversity, paleoecology, and distribution




Choristoderes from the park and its vicinity




The squamates : origins, phylogeny, and paleoecology




Plesiosaurian remains from non-marine to paralic sediments




Crocodylians




Pterosaurs




Ornithischian dinosaurs




The type specimen of Tetragonosaurus erectofrons (ornithischia : hadrosauridae) and the identification of juvenile lambeosaurines




Theropods, including birds




Eggshells




Vertebrate ichnology




Late Cretaceous mammals




Patterns of distribution of mammals in the Dinosaur Park formation and their paleobiological significance




Vertebrate taphonomy and taphonomic modes




Precise mapping of fossil sites in the park using survey grade GPS technology




A vertebrate assemblage from the marine shales of the Lethbridge coal zone




Ceratopsian bonebeds : occurrence, origins, and significance




The geographic and stratigraphic distribution of articulated and associated dinosaur remains