The Complete Dinosaur

by Farlow, James O.; Brett-Surman, M. K.

• ISBN13: 9780253333490
• ISBN10: 0253333490
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-10-01
• Publisher: Indiana Univ Pr

Summary

A New York Public Library Outstanding Reference Book of 1998 While the inhabitants of the lost world have long held sway over our imaginations, in recent years dinosaur science has experienced an explosive growth. More books on dinosaurs have been published in the past decade than in all the previous 150 years since Richard Owen named these 'fearfully great lizards' (correctly, 'reptiles'), and dinosaur research continues to make headlines. Reporting the latest discoveries and research, this book is an exuberant celebration of dinosaurs and of our ongoing fascination with them. Here, in one volume, is the single, most-authoritative account of dinosaur paleontology for the general reader. So rapidly has the field expanded that no individual can hope to master all the aspects of dinosaur paleontology. For this book, the editors have brought together forty-six experts in subjects ranging from functional morphology and paleobiology to biogeography and systematics to present a thorough survey of the dinosaurs from the earliest discoveries through the contemporary controversies over their extinction. Where contention exists, as over the question of whether dinosaurs were warm-blooded or cold-blooded, the editors have let the experts agree to disagree. Throughout technical jargon is kept to a minimun, and there is also a glossary of less familiar terms. Readers will find a wealth of information on the study and classification of dinosaurs, on each of the dinosaur groups, and on dinosaur biology and evolution. Not the least among these riches are the more than 350 illustrations (Including 16 pages of color plates), many prepared especially for this volume. The volume concludes with a survey of dinosaurs in the media and a chronology of the history of dinosaur science.NEWPARAThe single most authoritative account of dinosaur paleontology for the general public, all in one volume. Sumptuously illustrated, with up-to-the-minute information. ¥ More than 350 illustrations, including 16 pages in full color ¥ Each chapter written by an expert in dinosaur studies ¥ Includes the latest dinosaur discoveries ¥ New information on the warm-blooded/cold-blooded debate ¥ New insights on the possibility of isolating dinosaur DNA ¥ What dinosaurs ateÑand how we know about it ¥ Dinosaurs in the media ¥ A time-line of the history of dinosaur science ¥ And much, much more!

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
James O. Farlow
M. K. Brett-Surman
PART ONE: The Discovery of Dinosaurs	1	(60)
1. The Earliest Discoveries	3	(9)
William A. S. Sarjeant
2. European Dinosaur Hunters	12	(12)
Hans-Dieter Sues
3. North American Dinosaur Hunters	24	(10)
Edwin H. Colbert
4. Asian Dinosaur Hunters	34	(9)
John R. Lavas
5. Dinosaur Hunters of the Southern Continents	43	(18)
Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.
PART TWO: The Study of Dinosaurs	61	(112)
6. Hunting for Dinosaur Bones	64	(14)
David D. Gillette
7. The Osteology of the Dinosaurs	78	(14)
Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.
M. K. Brett-Surman
8. The Taxonomy and Systematics of the Dinosaurs	92	(15)
Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.
M. K. Brett-Surman
9. Dinosaurs and Geologic Time	107	(5)
James O. Farlow
10. Technology and the Study of Dinosaurs	112	(24)
Ralph E. Chapman
11. Molecular Paleontology: Rationale and Techniques for the Study of Ancient Biomolecules	136	(14)
Mary Higby Schweitzer
12. Dinosaurs as Museum Exhibits	150	(15)
Kenneth Carpenter
13. Restoring Dinosaurs as Living Animals	165	(8)
Douglas Henderson
PART THREE: The Groups of Dinosaurs	173	(174)
14. Politics and Paleontology: Richard Owen and the Invention of Dinosaurs	175	(16)
Hugh Torrens
15. Evolution of the Archosaurs	191	(13)
J. Michael Parrish
16. Origin and Early Evolution of Dinosaurs	204	(12)
Michael J. Benton
17. Theropods	216	(18)
Philip J. Currie
18. Segnosaurs (Therizinosaurs)	234	(8)
Teresa Maryanska
19. Prosauropods	242	(22)
Jacques VanHeerden
20. Sauropods	264	(27)
John S. McIntosh
M. K. Brett-Surman
James O. Farlow
21. Stegosaurs	291	(16)
Peter M. Galton
22. Ankylosaurs	307	(10)
Kenneth Carpenter
23. Marginocephalians	317	(13)
Catherine A. Forster
Paul C. Sereno
24. Ornithopods	330	(17)
M. K. Brett-Surman
PART FOUR: Biology of the Dinosaurs	347	(232)
25. Land Plants as Food and Habitat in the Age of Dinosaurs	352	(19)
Bruce H. Tiffney
26. What Did Dinosaurs Eat? Coprolites and Other Direct Evidence of Dinosaur Diets	371	(12)
Karen Chin
27. Dinosaur Combat and Courtship	383	(11)
Scott Sampson
28. Dinosaur Eggs	394	(9)
Karl F. Hirsch
Darla K. Zelenitsky
29. How Dinosaurs Grew	403	(11)
R. E. H. Reid
30. Engineering a Dinosaur	414	(12)
R. McNeill Alexander
31. Dinosaurian Paleopathology	426	(23)
Bruce M. Rothschild
32. Dinosaurian Physiology: The Case for "Intermediate" Dinosaurs	449	(25)
R. E. H. Reid
33. Oxygen Isotopes in Dinosaur Bone	474	(17)
Reese E. Barrick
Michael K. Stoskopf
William J. Showers
34. A Blueprint for Giants: Modeling the Physiology of Large Dinosaurs	491	(14)
Frank V. Paladino
James R. Spotila
Peter Dodson
35. New Insights into the Metabolic Physiology of Dinosaurs	505	(14)
John Ruben
Andrew Leitch
Willem Hillenius
Nicholas Geist
Terry Jones
36. The Scientific Study of Dinosaur Footprints	519	(35)
James O. Farlow
Ralph E. Chapman
37. The Paleoecological and Paleoenvironmental Utility of Dinosaur Tracks	554	(25)
Martin G. Lockley
PART FIVE: Dinosaur Evolution in the Changing World of the Mesozoic Era	579	(94)
38. Biogeography for Dinosaurs	581	(26)
Ralph E. Molnar
39. Major Groups of Non-Dinosaurian Vertebrates of the Mesozoic Era	607	(20)
Michael Morales
40. Continental Tetrapods of the Early Mesozoic	627	(17)
Hans-Dieter Sues
41. Dinosaurian Faunas of the Later Mesozoic	644	(18)
Dale A. Russell
Jose F. Bonaparte
42. The Extinction of the Dinosaurs: A Dialogue between a Catastrophist and a Gradualist	662	(11)
Dale A. Russell
Peter Dodson
PART SIX: Dinosaurs and the Media	673	(34)
43. Dinosaurs and the Media	675	(32)
Donald F. Glut
M. K. Brett-Surman
Appendix: A Chronological History of Dinosaur Paleontology	707	(14)
M. K. Brett-Surman
Glossary	721	(10)
Contributors	731	(4)
Index	735