The evolution and extinction of the dinosaurs
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The evolution and extinction of the dinosaurs
Cambridge University Press, 1996
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内容説明
This is a comprehensive treatment of dinosaurs designed to be used mainly as a textbook for students in first or second year undergraduate courses, although non-specialists are also sure to find the book of great interest. Nonetheless, it is unique in that it truly portrays dinosaurs from a specialist viewpoint. It is the only comprehensive text that takes an explicitly phylogenetic approach to this group. The geological context of dinosaurs is also stressed, and dinosaurs are presented in the context of contemporary plate tectonic and climatic settings. The authors also cover topics of interest in dinosaur palaeobiology, 'hot-blooded' dinosaurs, aspects of dinosaur functional morphology and the relationships of dinosaurs to birds. All of the discussion is couched in lively and accessible language, and the book is lavishly illustrated by specially commissioned line drawings and colour plates that show dinosaurs in a variety of natural settings.
目次
- Preface
- Part I. Setting The Stage: 1. Introduction/collection
- 2. The Mesozoic era: back to the past
- 3. Discovering order in the natural world
- 4. Interrelationships of the vertebrates
- 5. The origin of dinosauria
- Part II. Ornithischia: 6. Stegosauria: hot plates
- 7. Ankylosauria: mass and gas
- 8. Pachycephalosauria: head to head with malice aforethought
- 9. Ceratopsia: horns and all the frills
- 10. Ornithopoda: the tuskers, antelopes, and mighty ducks of the Mesozoic
- Part III. Saurischia: 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
- Part IV. Endothermy, Environments, and Extinction: 14. Dinosaur endothermy: some like it hot
- 15. Dinosaurs in space and time
- 16. Reconstructing extinctions: the art of science
- 17. The Cretaceous/Tertiary extinction: the frill is gone
- Glossary
- Index.
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