HISTORICAL ATLAS DINOSAURS jurassic cretaceous triassic

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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