Dinosaurs of Australia and New Zealand and other animals of the Mesozoic era
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Dinosaurs of Australia and New Zealand and other animals of the Mesozoic era
Harvard University Press, c1998
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Dinosaurs of Australia and New Zealand
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-183) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Beginning in the 1990s, fossils unearthed in Australia and New Zealand began to reshape the debates around some of paleontology's most hotly contested questions: how dinosaurs and birds are related, whether dinosaurs were warm-blooded, and when and how the mammals began their rise.
In this first comprehensive account of Mesozoic vertebrates from New Zealand and Australia, John Long shows that, while the fossil record from the region can be sparse and fragmentary, finds from such sites as Dinosaur Cove, Coober Pedy, Lightning Ridge, and the fossil trackways at Broome offer new and occasionally startling evidence that has the potential to challenge current views. Long's up-to-date coverage includes the discovery in late 1996 of a new shrew-like mammal, Ausktribosphenos nyktos.
Entries on individual fauna begin with a brief introduction, written to be accessible to the armchair paleontologist, that describes the prevailing climate and habitat during the relevant geological time period, followed by more technical information aimed at specialists, including type characteristics, location and other details about the specimen's discovery. Dinosaurs of Australia and New Zealand is profusely illustrated with photographs of the fossils, maps, and newly commissioned life restorations by some of the leading dinosaur illustrators from Australia and the United States: Peter Schouten, Tony Windberg, Bill Stout, and Mike Skrepnick.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements Preface The Study and Discovery of Dinosaurs 1. Dinosaurs as Fossils 2. The Family Tree of Dinosaurs 3. Australian and New Zealand Dinosaur Discoveries: A Brief History Australia and New Zealand in the Triassic 4. Amphibians and Reptiles Australia in the Jurassic 5. Amphibians, Marine Reptiles and Dinosaurs Australia and New Zealand in the Cretaceous 6. Dinosaurs 7. Australian Amphibians, Marine Reptiles, Crocodilians, Pterosaurs, Birds and Mammals 8. New Zealand Dinosaurs, Marine Reptiles and Pterosaurs
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