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Dawn of the Dinosaurs Life in the Triassic

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ISBN-10: 0253346525

ISBN-13: 9780253346520

Edition: 2006

Authors: Douglas Henderson, Nicholas Fraser, Nicholas Fraser

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Science and art collaborate to recreate life on Earth more than 200 million years ago
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Book details

List price: $49.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 10/26/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 328
Size: 8.75" wide x 11.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 2.838
Language: English

Nicholas Fraser is Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology and Director of Research and Collections at the Virginia Museum of Natural History. He lives in Martinsville, Virginia.Douglas Henderson's work has appeared in several national and international touring exhibits as well as numerous magazines and books, including the children's books Living with Dinosaurs, Dinosaur Tree, Dinosaur Ghosts, and, more recently, Asteroid Impact. He lives in Whitehall, Montana.

The end of an era : the early triassic
Setting the stage : the paleogeography and climate of the triassic world
A brief phylogeny of triassic fishes and tetrapods
Starting out in the triassic
A comfortable middle age : the middle triassic
A hint of the sea
No midlife crisis
A time of change : the early late triassic
Marginal creatures in a marginal world
The enigmas of Texas and the U.S. Southwest
Life in the Sand Dunes? The elgin reptiles
Life in the deep south : the late triassic of Gondwana
The birth of modern terrestrial ecosystems
Pitfalls in paleontology : the British fissure deposits
Time to go our separate ways : the Newark supergroup
A catastrophic finale? The mode and tempo of faunal change
Global biostratigraphy and age correlation of triassic fossil assemblages
Bare bones sedimentology
The anatomy of a tetrapod
Names, grades, and clades