Introduction | p. 6 |
The Age of Dinosaurs | p. 8 |
The Geological Timescale | p. 10 |
Early Evolution | p. 12 |
Dinosaur Classification | p. 18 |
Theropods | p. 20 |
Sauropods and Prosauropods | p. 22 |
Ornithopods | p. 24 |
Armoured Dinosaurs | p. 26 |
Coprolites and Diet | p. 28 |
Dinosaur Footprints | p. 30 |
Dinosaur Eggs | p. 32 |
Dinosaur Babies and Family Life | p. 34 |
Death and Taphonomy | p. 36 |
Deserts and Arid Habitats | p. 38 |
Oases and Desert Streams | p. 40 |
Calm Lagoons | p. 42 |
Riparian Forests | p. 44 |
Lake Environments | p. 46 |
Wetlands | p. 48 |
Swamp Forests | p. 50 |
Open Plains | p. 52 |
Shorelines and Islands | p. 54 |
Mountains | p. 56 |
Extinction | p. 58 |
The Fossilization Process | p. 60 |
Excavation in the Field | p. 62 |
The Palaeontologists | p. 64 |
The World of Dinosaurs | p. 66 |
The Triassic Period | p. 68 |
Placodonts | p. 70 |
Ichthyosaurs | p. 72 |
Nothosaurs | p. 74 |
Pterosaurs | p. 76 |
Early Meat-eaters | p. 78 |
Lithe Meat-eaters | p. 80 |
Coelophysids | p. 82 |
Primitive Sauropodomorphs | p. 84 |
True Prosauropods | p. 86 |
More Prosauropods | p. 88 |
Herbivorous Miscellany | p. 90 |
The Jurassic Period | p. 92 |
Ichthyosaurs | p. 94 |
Plesiosaurs | p. 96 |
Pterosaurs | p. 98 |
Coelophysid Meat-eaters | p. 100 |
Diversifying Meat-eaters | p. 102 |
The Late Prosauropods | p. 104 |
Primitive Sauropods | p. 106 |
Little Ornithopods | p. 108 |
Primitive Armoured Dinosaurs | p. 110 |
Megalosaurus and its Clones | p. 112 |
Theropods | p. 114 |
The Sauropods of Dashanpu Quarry, China | p. 116 |
Cetiosaurs | p. 118 |
Ornithopods | p. 120 |
Early Thyreophorans | p. 122 |
Plesiosaurs | p. 124 |
Rhamphorhynchoid Pterosaurs | p. 126 |
Pteradactyloid Pterosaurs | p. 128 |
Morrison Formation Meat-eaters | p. 130 |
Theropods of Cleveland-Lloyd | p. 132 |
Smaller Theropods | p. 134 |
Brachiosaurids and Camarasaurids | p. 136 |
Diplodocids | p. 138 |
More Diplodocids | p. 140 |
Ornithopods | p. 142 |
Stegosaurs | p. 144 |
More Stegosaurs | p. 146 |
The Cretaceous Period | p. 148 |
Pterosaurs | p. 150 |
Big Pterosaurs | p. 152 |
Early Cretaceous Carnosaurs | p. 154 |
Medium-size Theropod Meat-eaters | p. 156 |
Little Feathered Dinosaurs | p. 158 |
Fast Hunters | p. 160 |
Spinosaurids | p. 162 |
Late Diplodocids and Brachiosaurids | p. 164 |
Titanosaurids - the New Giants | p. 166 |
Hypsilophodonts and Iguanodonts | p. 168 |
Iguanodonts | p. 170 |
Polacanthids and Other Early Ankylosaurs | p. 172 |
Early Hornheads | p. 174 |
Mosasaurs | p. 176 |
Plesiosaurs | p. 178 |
Giant Pterosaurs | p. 180 |
Basic Abelisaurids | p. 182 |
Advanced Abelisaurids | p. 184 |
Sundry Theropods | p. 186 |
Troodonts | p. 188 |
Ornithomimids | p. 190 |
Advanced Ornithomimids | p. 192 |
Oviraptorids | p. 194 |
Therizinosaurids | p. 196 |
Alvarezsaurids | p. 198 |
Dromaeosaurids | p. 200 |
Tyrannosaurids | p. 202 |
The Last Tyrannosaurids | p. 204 |
Big Titanosaurids | p. 206 |
Miscellaneous Titanosaurids | p. 208 |
More Miscellaneous Titanosaurids | p. 210 |
Small Ornithopods | p. 212 |
The Iguanodontid-Hadrosaurid Connection | p. 214 |
Lambeosaurine Hadrosaurids | p. 216 |
More Lambeosaurine Hadrosaurids | p. 218 |
Crested Hadrosaurine Hadrosaurids | p. 220 |
More Crested Hadrosaurines | p. 222 |
Flat-headed Hadrosaurines | p. 224 |
Boneheads | p. 226 |
Late Boneheads | p. 228 |
Primitive Asian Ceratopsians | p. 230 |
New World Primitive Ceratopsians | p. 232 |
Short-frilled Ceratopsids | p. 234 |
Centrosaurines | p. 236 |
Chasmosaurinae | p. 238 |
More Chasmosaurines | p. 240 |
Nodosaurids | p. 242 |
More Nodosaurids | p. 244 |
Big Ankylosaurids | p. 246 |
The Last Ankylosaurids | p. 248 |
Glossary | p. 250 |
Index | p. 252 |
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