Evolution and Extinction of the Dinosaurs

Name: Evolution and Extinction of the Dinosaurs
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ISBN: 9780521811729

ISBN-10: 0521811724

ISBN-13: 9780521811729

Edition: 2nd 2005 (Revised)

Authors: David E. Fastovsky, David B. Weishampel, John Sibbick

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Fastovsky and Weishampel's book takes an explicitly phylogenetic approach to dinosaurs. However, it also stresses the geological context of dinosaurs, and presents them in the context of contemporary plate tectonic and climatic settings.

Book details

List price: $89.99
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 2/7/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 500
Size: 8.54" wide x 10.24" long x 1.22" tall
Weight: 3.036
Language: English



Preface



Setting The Stage



Introduction/collection



The Mesozoic era: back to the past



Discovering order in the natural world



Interrelationships of the vertebrates



The origin of dinosauria



Ornithischia



Stegosauria: hot plates



Ankylosauria: mass and gas



Pachycephalosauria: head to head with malice aforethought



Ceratopsia: horns and all the frills



Ornithopoda: the tuskers, antelopes, and mighty ducks of the Mesozoic



Saurischia



Sauropodomorpha: the big, the bizarre, and the majestic



Theropoda I: nature red in tooth and claw



Theropoda II: the origin of birds



Endothermy, Environments, and Extinction



Dinosaur endothermy: some like it hot



Dinosaurs in space and time



Reconstructing extinctions: the art of science



The Cretaceous/Tertiary extinction: the frill is gone


Glossary


Index