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Category : Dinosaur tracks
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Guidebook for Dinosaur Quarries and Tracksites Tour, Western Colorado and Eastern Utah
Author: Jurassic West, Second Edition
Author: John FosterPublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253051606
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 531
Book Description
The famous bone beds of the Morrison Formation, formed one hundred and fifty million years ago and running from Wyoming down through the red rock region of the American Southwest, have yielded one of the most complete pictures of any ancient vertebrate ecosystem in the world. Jurassic West, Second Edition tells the story of the life of this ancient world as scientists have so far been able to reconstruct it. Aimed at the general reader, Jurassic West, Second Edition recounts the discovery of many important Late Jurassic dinosaurs such as Apatosaurus, Allosaurus, and Stegosaurus. But dinosaurs compose barely a third of the more than 90 types of vertebrates known from the formation, which include crocodiles and turtles, frogs and salamanders, dinosaurs and mammals, clams and snails, and ginkgoes, ferns, and conifers. Featuring nearly all new illustrations, the second edition of this classic work includes new taxa named since 2007, updates to the naming and classifications of some old taxa, and expanded sections on numerous aspects of Morrison Formation paleontology and geology.
The Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation
Author: Kenneth CarpenterPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9789056991838
Category : Formations (Geology)
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description
Dinosaur Eggs and Babies
Author: Kenneth CarpenterPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521567237
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
In the last two decades the study of dinosaur eggs and babies has proved a very profitable area of dinosaur research. This book is solely devoted to this topic and reviews our present state of knowledge in this area of paleontology.
Dinosaurs - Concepts, Histology and Stratigraphy
Author: A. S. WilliamPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 9782881249075
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Vertebrate Paleontology in Utah
Author: David D. GillettePublisher: Utah Geological Survey
ISBN: 1557916349
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
The 52 papers in this vary in content from summaries or state-of-knowledge treatments, to detailed contributions that describe new species. Although the distinction is subtle, the title (Vertebrate Paleontology in Utah) indicates the science of paleontology in the state of Utah, rather than the even more ambitious intent if it were given the title “Vertebrate Paleontology of Utah” which would promise an encyclopedic treatment of the subject. The science of vertebrate paleontology in Utah is robust and intense. It has grown prodigiously in the past decade, and promises to continue to grow indefinitely. This research benefits everyone in the state, through Utah’s muse ums and educational institutions, which are the direct beneficiaries.
The Second Jurassic Dinosaur Rush
Author: Paul D. BrinkmanPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226074730
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
The so-called “Bone Wars” of the 1880s, which pitted Edward Drinker Cope against Othniel Charles Marsh in a frenzy of fossil collection and discovery, may have marked the introduction of dinosaurs to the American public, but the second Jurassic dinosaur rush, which took place around the turn of the twentieth century, brought the prehistoric beasts back to life. These later expeditions—which involved new competitors hailing from leading natural history museums in New York, Chicago, and Pittsburgh—yielded specimens that would be reconstructed into the colossal skeletons that thrill visitors today in museum halls across the country. Reconsidering the fossil speculation, the museum displays, and the media frenzy that ushered dinosaurs into the American public consciousness, Paul Brinkman takes us back to the birth of dinomania, the modern obsession with all things Jurassic. Featuring engaging and colorful personalities and motivations both altruistic and ignoble, The Second Jurassic Dinosaur Rush shows that these later expeditions were just as foundational—if not more so—to the establishment of paleontology and the budding collections of museums than the more famous Cope and Marsh treks. With adventure, intrigue, and rivalry, this is science at its most swashbuckling.
The Triassic-Jurassic Terrestrial Transition
Author: Jerry D. HarrisPublisher: New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science
ISBN:
Category : Geology, Stratigraphic
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
Paleoecological Analysis of the Vertebrate Fauna of the Morrison Formation (Upper Jurassic), Rocky Mountain Region, U.S.A.
Author: John R. FosterPublisher: New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science
ISBN:
Category : Morrison Formation
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Jurassic West
Author: John FosterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
The incredible story of the dinosaurs and other animals that lived in the American West 150 million years ago