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Author Lucas, Spencer G., author.

Title Dinosaurs : the textbook / Spencer G. Lucas.

Publication Info. New York : Columbia University Press, [2016]

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Edition Sixth edition.
Description 1 online resource (xxi, 367 pages)
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Summary This book is an introduction to dinosaurs, providing the basic concepts of biology and geology needed to understand dinosaur science--the main taxonomic groups, the origin and extinction of dinosaurs, and dinosaur behavior--as well as a discussion of dinosaurs in popular culture. -- Publisher.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 19, 2016).
Contents Frontmatter -- CONTENTS IN BRIEF -- CONTENTS IN DETAIL -- BOXED READINGS -- PREFACE -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. EVOLUTION, PHYLOGENY, AND CLASSIFICATION -- 3. FOSSILS, SEDIMENTARY ENVIRONMENTS, AND GEOLOGIC TIME -- 4. THE ORIGIN OF DINOSAURS -- 5. THEROPODS -- 6. SAUROPODOMORPHS -- 7. ORNITHOPODS -- 8. STEGOSAURS AND ANKYLOSAURS -- 9. CERATOPSIANS AND PACHYCEPHALOSAURS -- 10. THE DINOSAURIAN WORLD -- 11. DINOSAUR HUNTERS -- 12. DINOSAUR TRACE FOSSILS -- 13. DINOSAUR BIOLOGY AND BEHAVIOR -- 14. HOT-BLOODED DINOSAURS? -- 15. DINOSAURS AND THE ORIGIN OF BIRDS -- 16. THE EXTINCTION OF DINOSAURS -- 17. DINOSAURS IN THE PUBLIC EYE -- APPENDIX A. PRIMER OF DINOSAUR ANATOMY -- GLOSSARY -- A DINOSAUR DICTIONARY -- INDEX
Language In English.
Subject Dinosaurs -- Textbooks.
NATURE -- Fossils.
Dinosaurs. (OCoLC)fst00893996
Genre/Form Textbooks. (OCoLC)fst01423863
Other Form: Print version: Lucas, Spencer G. Dinosaurs. Sixth edition. New York : Columbia University Press, [2016] 9780231173100 (DLC) 2015044367
Standard No. 10.7312/luca17310 doi
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