The Penguin historical atlas of the dinosaurs

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The Penguin historical atlas of the dinosaurs

M.J. Benton

(Penguin books)

Penguin, 1996

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Historical atlas of the dinosaurs

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Description

This atlas charts the development of the dinosaurs, from their emergence from the ocean, through their dispersal across the shifting continents and their gradual evolution, to their sudden and mysterious extinction 64 million years ago. It contains timelines, maps and illustrations.

Table of Contents

  • Part I How to understand dinosaurs: from organism to fossil
  • telling geological time
  • evolution
  • first finds
  • the Heroic Age
  • worldwide dinosaurs
  • latest finds
  • digging up dinosaurs today
  • making dinosaurs live. Part II Before the dinosaurs: timeline I
  • continents on the move
  • Carboniferous and Permian World
  • the land that time forgot
  • the end-Permian mass extinction. Part III The Triassic - the first dinosuars: competition of mass extinction?
  • timeline II
  • the Triassic world
  • the first dinosaurs
  • dinosuar phylogeny
  • Coelophysis from Ghost Ranch
  • Plateosaurus from Trossingen. Part IV The Jurassic - heyday of giant dinosaurs: the Jurassic world
  • dinosuars of the early Jurassic
  • middle Jurassic dinosaurs of England
  • middle Jurassic dinosaurs of China
  • dinosaurs of Gondwanaland
  • the biggest dinosaur expedition of all
  • dinosaurs of the Morrison Formation
  • dinosaurs of the American Midwest
  • megatrackways and dinosaur freeways. Part V The Cretacecous - new dinosaur groups: the Cretacecous world
  • dinosaurs of the Wealden
  • polar dinosaurs
  • early Cretaceous dinosaurs of Africa
  • dinosaurs of Gondwanaland
  • dinosaurs of Mongolia and Cjina
  • dwarf dinosaurs of Romania
  • late Cretaceous dinosaurs of N. America
  • the last American dinosaurs
  • the extinction of the dinosaurs.

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