What bugged the dinosaurs? insects, disease, and death in the Cretaceous /
This book reveals that T. rex was not the only killer in the Cretaceous: insects--from biting sand flies to disease-causing parasites--dominated life on the planet and played a significant role in the life and death of the dinosaurs. Analyzing exotic insects fossilized in Cretaceous amber at three m...
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| Language: | English |
| Published: | Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2008. |
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Table of Contents:
- Fossils : a time capsule
- The Cretaceous : a time of change
- Herbivory
- Dinosaurs competing with insects
- Did dinosaurs or insects "invent" flowering plants?
- Pollination
- Blights and diseases of Cretaceous plants
- The Cretaceous Age of chimeras and other oddities
- Sanitary engineers of the Cretaceous
- The case for entomophagy among dinosaurs
- Gorging on dinosaurs
- Biting midges
- Sand flies
- Mosquitoes
- Blackflies
- Horseflies and deerflies
- Fleas and lice
- Ticks and mites
- Parasitic worms
- The discovery of Cretaceous diseases
- Diseases and the evolution of pathogens
- Insects : the ultimate survivors
- Extinctions and the K/T boundary
- Appendix A. Cretaceous Hexapoda
- Appendix B. Key factors contributing to the survival of terrestrial animals
- Appendix C. Problems with evaluating the fossil record and extinctions.