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Tyrannosaurus Rex, the Tyrant King

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ISBN-10: 0253350875

ISBN-13: 9780253350879

Edition: 2008

Authors: Peter L. Larson, Kenneth Carpenter, Peter Larson, Peter L. Larson, Peter L. Larson

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A treasure trove of information about the most famous dinosaur of all-with a supplementary CD-ROM
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List price: $49.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 7/17/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 456
Size: 7.01" wide x 10.00" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 2.464
Language: English

Peter Larson is founder and president of the Black Hills Institute of Geological Research in Hill City, South Dakota, whose staff was responsible for excavating the T. rex known as "Stan." He lives in Hill City, South Dakota.Kenneth Carpenter is the dinosaur paleontologist for the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. He is author of Eggs, Nests, and Baby Dinosaurs (IUP, 2000) and editor of The Carnivorous Dinosaurs (IUP, 2005) and The Armored Dinosaurs (IUP, 2001). He lives in Aurora, Colorado.

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.

Supplemental CD-ROM Contents
Contributors
Preface
Institutional Abbreviations
One Hundred Years of Tyrannosaurus rex: The Skeletons
Wyoming's Dynamosaurus imperiosus and Other Early Discoveries of Tyrannosaurus rex in the Rocky Mountain West
How Old Is T. rex? Challenges with the Dating of Terrestrial Strata Deposited during the Maastrichtian Stage of the Cretaceous Period
Preliminary Account of the Tyrannosaurid Pete from the Lance Formation of Wyoming
Taphonomy of the Tyrannosaurus rex Peck's Rex from the Hell Creek Formation of Montana
Taphonomy and Environment of Deposition of a Juvenile Tyrannosaurid Skeleton from the Hell Creek Formation (Latest Maastrichtian) of Southeastern Montana
One Pretty Amazing T. rex
Variation and Sexual Dimorphism in Tyrannosaurus rex
Why Tyrannosaurus rex Had Puny Arms: An Integral Morphodynamic Solution to a Simple Puzzle in Theropod Paleobiology
Looking Again at the Forelimb of Tyrannosaurus rex
Rex, Sit: Digital Modeling of Tyrannosaurus rex at Rest
T. rex Speed Trap
Atlas of the Skull Bones of Tyrannosaurus rex
Palatal Kinesis of Tyrannosaurus rex
Reconstruction of the Jaw Musculature of Tyrannosaurus rex
Vestigialism in a Dinosaur
Tyrannosaurid Pathologies as Clues to Nature and Nurture in the Cretaceous
The Extreme Lifestyles and Habits of the Gigantic Tyrannosaurid Superpredators of the Late Cretaceous of North America and Asia
An Analysis of Predator-Prey Behavior in a Head-to-Head Encounter between Tyrannosaurus rex and Triceratops
A Critical Reappraisal of the Obligate Scavenging Hypothesis for Tyrannosaurus rex and Other Tyrant Dinosaurs
Tyrannosaurus rex: A Century of Celebrity
Index