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| Language: | English |
| Published: | Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [1997], ©1997. |
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Table of Contents:
- pt. 1. The discovery of dinosaurs. The earliest discoveries / William A.S. Sarjeant
- European dinosaur hunters / Hans-Dieter Sues
- North American dinosaur hunters / Edwin H. Colbert
- Asian dinosaur hunters / John R. Lavas
- Dinosaur hunters of the southern continents / Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.
- pt. 2. The study of dinosaurs. Hunting for dinosaur bones / David D. Gillette
- The osteology of the dinosaurs ; The taxonomy and systematics of the dinosaurs / Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. and M.K. Brett-Surman
- Dinosaurs and geologic time / James O. Farlow
- Technology and the study of dinosaurs / Ralph E. Chapman
- Molecular paleontology : rationale and techniques for the study of ancient biomolecules / Mary Higby Schweitzer
- Dinosaurs as museum exhibits / Kenneth Carpenter
- Restoring dinosaurs as living animals / Douglas Henderson
- pt. 3. The groups of dinosaurs. Politics and paleontology : Richard Owen and the invention of dinosaurs / Hugh Torrens
- Evolution of the Archosaurs / J. Michael Parrish
- Origin and early evolution of dinosaurs / Michael J. Benton
- Theropods / Philip J. Currie
- Segnosaurs (Therizinosaurs) / Teresa Maryańska
- Prosauropods / Jacques VanHeerden
- Sauropods / John S. McIntosh, M.K. Brett-Surman, and James O. Farlow
- Stegosaurs / Peter M. Galton
- Ankylosaurs / Kenneth Carpenter
- Marginocephalians / Catherine A. Forster and Paul C. Sereno
- Ornithopods / M.K. Brett-Surman
- pt. 4. Biology of the dinosaurs. Land plants as food and habitat in the age of dinosaurs / Bruce H. Tiffney
- What did dinosaurs eat? : coprolites and other direct evidence of dinosaur diets / Karen Chin
- Dinosaur combat and courtship / Scott Sampson
- Dinosaur eggs / Karl F. Hirsch and Darla K. Zelenitsky
- How dinosaurs grew / R.E.H. Reid
- Engineering a dinosaur / R. McNeill Alexander
- Dinosaurian paleopathology / Bruce M. Rothschild
- Dinosaurian physiology : the case for "intermediate" dinosaurs / R.E.H. Reid
- Oxygen isotopes in dinosaur bone / Reese E. Barrick, Michael K. Stoskopf, and William J. Showers
- A blueprint for giants : modeling the physiology of large dinosaurs / Frank V. Paladino, James R. Spotila, and Peter Dodson
- New insights into the metabolic physiology of dinosaurs / John Ruben ... [et al.]
- The scientific study of dinosaur footprints / James O. Farlow and Ralph E. Chapman
- The paleoecological and paleoenvironmental utility of dinosaur tracks / Martin G. Lockley
- pt. 5. Dinosaur evolution in the changing world of the Mesozoic Era. Biogeography for dinosaurs / Ralph E. Molnar
- Major groups of non-dinosaurian vertebrates of the Mesozoic Era / Michael Morales
- Continental tetrapods of the early Mesozoic / Hans-Dieter Sues
- Dinosaurian faunas of the later Mesozoic / Dale A. Russell and José F. Bonaparte
- The extinction of the dinosaurs : a dialogue between a catastrophist and a gradualist / Dale A. Russell and Peter Dodson
- pt. 6. Dinosaurs and the media. Dinosaurs and the media / Donald F. Glut and M.K. Brett-Surman
- Appendix : A chronological history of dinosaur paleontology / M.K. Brett-Surman.