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ISBN 0140513361
Size = 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
An indispensable reference describing the hundreds of species of dinosaurs that evolved between the Triassic and Cretaceous periods. Penguin's one-volume handbook plots the development of these monstrous rulers of the planet from their emergence from the ocean through their dispersal across the shifting continents to their sudden and mysterious extinction 65 million years ago. Full-color maps and b&w illustrations throughout.









CONTENTS:
I. How to Understand Dinosaurs From Organism to Fossil Telling Geological Time Evolution First Finds The Heroic Age Worldwide Dinosaurs Latest Finds Digging up Dinosaurs Today Making Dinosaurs Live
II. Before the Dinosaurs Timeline I Continents on the Move Carboniferous and Permian World The Land that Time Forgot The End-Permian Mass Extinction
III. The Triassic: the First Dinosaurs Competition or Mass Extinction? Timeline II The Triassic World The First Dinosaurs Dinosaur Phylogeny Coelophysis from Ghost Ranch Plateosaurus from Trossingen
IV. The Jurassic: Heyday of Giant Dinosaurs The Jurassic World Dinosaurs of the Early Jurassic Middle Jurassic Dinosaurs of England Middle Jurassic Dinosaurs of China Dinosaurs of Gondwanaland The Biggest Dinosaur Expedition of All Dinosaurs of the Morrison Formation Dinosaurs of the American Midwest Megatrackways and Dinosaur Freeways
V. The Cretaceous: New Dinosaur Groups The Cretaceous World Dinosaurs of the Wealden Polar Dinosaurs Early Cretaceous Dinosaurs of Africa Dinosaurs of Gondwanaland Dinosaurs of Mongolia And China Dwarf Dinosaurs of Romania Late Cretaceous Dinosaurs of N. America The Last American Dinosaurs The Extinction of the Dinosaurs
Further reading Index
144 pages. Softcover. Ex-Library.
Weight = 500 g
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