| Edition |
First American edition. |
| Description |
376 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 29 cm |
| Note |
"In association with the American Museum of Natural History." |
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Includes index. |
| Contents |
How to use this book -- Finding out about the past -- Fossils -- Evolving life -- How evolution happens -- Classifying life -- Fish and invertebrates -- Invertebrates cladogram -- Trilobites -- Sea scorpions -- Evolving insects -- Ammonites and belemnites -- Toward the first fish -- Vertebrates cladogram -- Fish cladogram -- Jawless fish -- Armored fish -- Sharks and rays -- Spiny sharks -- Early ray-finned fish -- Advanced ray-finned fish -- Lobe-finned fish -- Amphibians and reptiles: Early tetrapods and amphibians cladogram - Early tetrapods -- Temnospondyls -- Life in a swamp forest -- Lepospondyls and lissamphibians -- Reptiliomorphs -- Introducing amniotes -- Repitiliomorphs -- Introducing amniotes -- Reptiles cladogram -- Parareptiles -- Turtles -- Diversifying diapsids -- Mosassaurs -- Placodonts and nothosaurs -- Short-necked plesiosaurs -- Long-necked plesiosaurs. |
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Ichthyosaurs -- Early ruling reptile groups -- Early crocodile-group reptiles -- Crocodilians -- Early pterosaurs -- Advanced pterosaurs -- Dinosaurs and birds: Dinosaurs defined --- Saurischians cladogram -- Early theropods -- Horned lizards -- Abel's lizards -- Stiff tails -- Strange spinosaurs -- Giant killers -- Predator trap -- Hollow-tail lizards -- Ostrich dinosaurs -- Tyrannosaurids -- Scythe lizards -- Egg thieves -- Tail feather -- Terrible claws -- Road runners -- Birds cladogram -- Archaeopteryx -- Early birds -- New birds -- Introducing sauropomorphs -- Prosauropods -- Early sauropods -- Double beams -- Chambered lizards -- Arm lizards -- Gigantic lizards -- Brachiosaurids -- Ornithischians cladogram -- Small bipedal plant eaters -- Early shield bearers -- Plated dinosaurs -- Spiky backs -- Node lizards -- Fused lizards -- Camptosaurs and dryosaurs. |
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Iguanodon -- Duck-billed dinosaurs -- Thick-headed lizards -- Parrot lizards -- Early horned dinosaurs -- Advanced horned dinosaurs -- Mammals and their ancestors: Synapsids cladogram -- Early synapsids -- Terrible heads -- Two dog teeth -- Dog teeth -- First mammals -- Australian pouched mammals -- American pouched mammals -- Strange-jointed mammals -- Placental pioneers -- Early carnivores -- Cats and other feliforms -- Saber-toothed cats -- Dogs and other caniforms -- Insectivores and bats -- Primitive primates -- Monkeys -- Australopithecines -- Early homo species -- Neanderthals -- Homo sapiens -- Prehistoric rabbits and rodents -- Island giants and dwarfs -- Terrible horns -- Primitive hoofed mammals -- Uranotheres -- Horses -- Brontotheres and chalicotheres. |
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Rhinoceroses -- Elephants -- Platybelodon -- Mammoths -- Pigs, hippos, and peccaries -- Camels -- Deer and kin -- Cattle, sheep, and goats -- Hoofed predators -- Early whales -- Reference section: Fossil timeline -- Finding fossils -- Techniques of excavation -- Famous fossil sites -- Fossils in the lab -- Studying fossils -- Paleobotany -- Paleoecology -- Comparative dating -- Chronometric dating -- Reconstructing fossils -- Restoring fossil animals -- Fossil hunter. |
| Subject |
Dinosaurs -- Encyclopedias, Juvenile.
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Dinosaurs -- Miscellanea.
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Prehistoric animals -- Miscellanea.
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| Added Author |
Naish, Darren.
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Wyse, Liz.
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American Museum of Natural History.
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| ISBN |
0789479354 |
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