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The evolution and extinction of the dinosaurs

1996; Association of College and Research Libraries; Volume: 34; Issue: 02 Linguagem: Inglês

10.5860/choice.34-0940

1943-5975

David E. Fastovsky, David B. Weishampel,

Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology

Preface to the second edition Part I. Setting the Stage: 1. Introduction 2. Back to the past: the Mesozoic era 3. Discovering order in the natural world 4. Interrelationships of vertebrates 5. The origin of Dinosauria Part II. Ornithischia: Armored, Horned, and Duck-Billed Dinosaurs: 6. Stegosauria: hot plates 7. Ankylosauria: mas and gas 8. Pachycephalosauria: ramroads of the Cretaceous 9. Ceratopsia: horns and all the frills 10. Ornithopoda: the tuskers, antelopes, and 'mighty ducks' of the Mesozoic Part III. Saurischia: Predators and Giants: 11. Sauropodomorpha: the big, the bizarre, and the majestic 12. Theropoda I: nature red in tooth and claw 13. Theropoda II: the origin of birds 14. Theropoda III: the early evolution of birds Part IV. Endothermy, Environments, and Extinction: 15. Dinosaur thermoregulation: some like it hot 16. Patterns in dinosaur evolution 17. Reconstructing extinctions: the art of science 18. The Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction: the frill is gone Glossary Subject index Generic index Author index.