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, ©2008. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Fossils : a time capsule
- 2. The Cretaceous : a time of change
- 3. Herbivory
- 4. Dinosaurs competing with insects
- 5. Did dinosaurs or insects "invent" flowering plants?
- 6. Pollination
- 7. Blights and diseases of Cretaceous plants
- 8. The Cretaceous Age of chimeras and other oddities
- 9. Sanitary engineers of the Cretaceous
- 10. The case for entomophagy among dinosaurs
- 11. Gorging on dinosaurs
- 12. Biting midges
- 13. Sand flies
- 14. Mosquitoes
- 15. Blackflies
- 16. Horseflies and deerflies
- 17. Fleas and lice
- 18. Ticks and mites
- 19. Parasitic worms
- 20. The discovery of Cretaceous diseases
- 21. Diseases and the evolution of pathogens
- 22. Insects : the ultimate survivors
- 23. 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
- References
- Index.