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Vertebrate Paleobiology - A Form And Function Approach

by Gerardo De Iuliis, Guillermo H. Cassini, M. Susana Bargo, Néstor Toledo e Sergio F. Vizcaino

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 An essential introduction to the paleobiology of animal body size, locomotion, and feeding.Paleobiology is the branch of evolutionary biology involved in the reconstruction of the life histories of extinct organisms. It answers the questions, How do we use fossils to reconstruct the size of prehistoric animals, and How did they move and feed? Drawing on a rich inventory of South American Miocene fossils, Vertebrate Paleobiology: A Form and Function Approach examines different aspects of functional morphology and how they are tested by paleontologists, anatomists, and zoologists. Beginning with a review of various methodologies to interpret fossils, the authors turn to the main concepts important to functional morphology and give examples of each. They conclude by showing how functional morphology enables a dynamic, broadscale reconstruction of the life of prehistoric animals during the South American Miocene.Originally published in Spanish, Vertebrate Paleobiology: A Form and Function Approach provides a broad sweep of recent developments, including theoretical and practical techniques, applied to the study of extinct vertebrates.
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From Siberian Prisoner To Dinosaur Egg Detective - The Epic Odyssey Of Karl Hirsch

by Martin Lockley

~~41,06€~~ 36,95€ 10% OFF

 The inspiring story of the man who doggedly sought the secrets hidden within dinosaur eggs.From Siberian Prisoner to Dinosaur Egg Detective explores the fascinating story of Karl Franz Hirsch (1921-1996). After serving in the German army in WWII, being wounded and captured by the Soviets in Danzig and then sent to a prisoner of war camp in Siberia, Hirsch went on to become one of the world's leading experts on fossil eggs. After starting a new life in Colorado, Hirsch became an avid fossil hunter and one day discovered by accident a dinosaur egg. Armed with curiosity and a microscope, he began to study it. In 1979, at the age of 58, Hirsch published his first scientific paper on fossil eggs. Hirsch went on to write dozens of influential technical papers and collaborate with professional paleontologists at the University of Colorado Boulder and elsewhere. At his death, his immense research collection consisted of 35,000 photographs, 20,000 pages of notes, and 3000 fossil egg specimens. From Siberian Prisoner to Dinosaur Egg Detective presents Hirsch's inspiring life story, demonstrating how brilliance and determination are key ingredients in the advancement of scientific understanding.
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Beast Companions - The Unsung Animals Of The Dinosaurs' World

by John Foster

~~46,36€~~ 41,72€ 10% OFF

 Despite their fame and reputation, dinosaurs represent only half the story of the Mesozoic Era. In Beast Companions: The Unsung Animals of the Dinosaurs' World, paleontologist John Foster explores the often-overlooked animals that coexisted with them. These ancient species, often equally remarkable as their dinosaur neighbors, can provide valuable insights into the biotic history of our planet. In some cases, these animals reveal just as much, if not more, about the extinct ecosystems of the time as the dinosaurs themselves.By drawing on a wealth of current and past discoveries, Foster embarks on a sweeping journey across 164 million years to visit the beast companions of the dinosaurs. Along the way, he examines fish, insects, the first frogs and salamanders, turtles, snakes and lizards, marine reptiles, crocodiles, pterosaurs, birds, mammals, and other animals of the Mesozoic Era.Beast Companions is a groundbreaking exploration of the story of these contemporaries of the dinosaurs that set the modern world in motion more than 200 million years ago
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Ruling Reptiles - Crocodylian Biology And Archosaur Paleobiology

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 Modern crocodylians-crocodiles, alligators, caiman (Central and South America), and gharials (India)-have evolved over 250 million years from a fully terrestrial, bipedal ancestor. Along with birds, crocodylians are the only living members of Archosauria, the group including nonavian dinosaurs. Ruling Reptiles features contributions on a broad range of topics surrounding crocodylian evolution and biology including osteology, osteohistology, developmental biology, myology, odontology, functional morphology, allometry, body size estimation, taphonomy, parasitology, ecology, thermophysiology, and ichnology. It demonstrates how the wide variety of these studies can also provide crucial insights into dinosaurian biology and evolution.Featuring the latest findings and interpretations, Ruling Reptiles: Crocodylian Biology and Archosaur Paleobiology is an essential resource for zoologists, biologists, and paleontologists.
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Beast Companions - The Unsung Animals Of The Dinosaurs' World

by John Foster

~~43,21€~~ 38,89€ 10% OFF

 Despite their fame and reputation, dinosaurs represent only half the story of the Mesozoic Era. In Beast Companions: The Unsung Animals of the Dinosaurs' World, paleontologist John Foster explores the often-overlooked animals that coexisted with them. These ancient species, often equally remarkable as their dinosaur neighbors, can provide valuable insights into the biotic history of our planet. In some cases, these animals reveal just as much, if not more, about the extinct ecosystems of the time as the dinosaurs themselves.By drawing on a wealth of current and past discoveries, Foster embarks on a sweeping journey across 164 million years to visit the beast companions of the dinosaurs. Along the way, he examines fish, insects, the first frogs and salamanders, turtles, snakes and lizards, marine reptiles, crocodiles, pterosaurs, birds, mammals, and other animals of the Mesozoic Era.Beast Companions is a groundbreaking exploration of the story of these contemporaries of the dinosaurs that set the modern world in motion more than 200 million years ago
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Jurassic West, Second Edition - The Dinosaurs Of The Morrison Formation And Their World

by John Foster

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 Aimed at the general reader, Jurassic West, Second Edition recounts the discovery of many important Late Jurassic dinosaurs made at the famous bone beds of the Morrison Formation.
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Mesozoic Sea Dragons - Triassic Marine Life From The Ancient Tropical Lagoon Of Monte San Giorgio

by Olivier Rieppel; Illustration: Beat Scheffold

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 Mesozoic Sea Dragons is a fascinating, in-depth look at marine life from the Middle Triassic Period, drawing upon the best marine fossil record for that period in the world.
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Mesozoic Sea Dragons - Triassic Marine Life From The Ancient Tropical Lagoon Of Monte San Giorgio

by Olivier Rieppel

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 Told in rich detail and with gorgeous color recreations, this is the story of marine life in the age before the dinosaurs. During the Middle Triassic Period (247-237 million years ago), the mountain of Monte San Giorgio in Switzerland was a tropical lagoon. Today, it is a UNESCO World Heritage Site because it boasts an astonishing fossil record of marine life from that time. Attracted to an incredibly diverse and well-preserved set of fossils, Swiss and Italian paleontologists have been excavating the mountain since 1850.Synthesizing and interpreting over a century of discoveries through a critical twenty-first century lens, paleontologist Olivier Rieppel tells for the first time the complete story of the fish and marine reptiles who made that long-ago lagoon their home. Through careful analysis and vividly rendered recreations, he offers memorable glimpses of not only what Thalattosaurs, Protorosaurs, Ichthyosaurs, Pachypleurosaurs, and other marine life looked like but how they moved and lived in the lagoon. An invaluable resource for specialists and accessible to all, this book is essential to all who are fascinated with ancient marine life.
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After The Dinosaurs - The Age Of Mammals

by Donald R. Prothero

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 The Age of Mammals, the Cenozoic Era, has never had its Jurassic Park, but it was an amazing time in earth's history, populated by a wonderful assortment of bizarre animals. This book presents their story, which is part of a larger story of a world emerging from the greenhouse conditions of the Mesozoic.
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Oceans Of Kansas, Second Edition - A Natural History Of The Western Interior Sea

by Michael J. Everhart

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 <DIV>"Excellent . . . Those who are interested in vertebrate paleontology or in the scientific history of the American midwest should really get a copy." —PalArch’s Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology Revised, updated, and expanded with the latest interpretations and fossil discoveries, the second edition of Oceans of Kansas adds new twists to the fascinating story of the vast inland sea that engulfed central North America during the Age of Dinosaurs. Giant sharks, marine reptiles called mosasaurs, pteranodons, and birds with teeth all flourished in and around these shallow waters. Their abundant and well-preserved remains were sources of great excitement in the scientific community when first discovered in the 1860s and continue to yield exciting discoveries 150 years later. Michael J. Everhart vividly captures the history of these startling finds over the decades and re-creates in unforgettable detail these animals from our distant past and the world in which they lived—above, within, and on the shores of America’s ancient inland sea. "Oceans of Kansas remains the best and only book of its type currently available. Everhart’s treatment of extinct marine reptiles synthesizes source materials far more readably than any other recent, nontechnical book-length study of the subject." —Copeia "[The book] will be most useful to fossil collectors working in the local region and to historians of vertebrate paleontology . . . Recommended." —Choice</DIV>
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The Carnivorous Dinosaurs

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 The meat-eating dinosaurs, or Theropoda, include some of the fiercest predators that ever lived. Organized into three parts, this book explores morphological details that are important for understanding theropod systematics. It also focuses on specific regions of theropod anatomy and biomechanics, and examines theropods as living creatures.
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African Dinosaurs Unearthed - The Tendaguru Expeditions

by Gerhard Maier

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 The story of expeditions into Africa in search of dinosaur bones.
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Drawing Out Leviathan - Dinosaurs And The Science Wars

by Keith M. Parsons

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 For constructivists, 'nature' and 'reality' are simply what scientists agree to regard as natural or real. Further, the methods and standards of science are mere 'rules of the game' adopted to serve political and social agendas. This book critically examines this view in the light of some major debates about dinosaurs.
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Echinoderm Paleobiology

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 Echinoderms (which include such animals as sea stars, crinoids or sea lilies, sea urchins, sand dollars, and sea cucumbers) have left useful fossil record. This volume highlights the modern study of fossil echinoderms.
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Hadrosaurs

by David A. Eberth e Michael J. Benton

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 Presents the results of an international symposium on hadrosaurs, sponsored by the Royal Tyrrell Museum and the Royal Ontario Museum, where scientists and students gathered to share their research and their passion for duck-billed dinosaurs.
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Horned Armadillos And Rafting Monkeys - The Fascinating Fossil Mammals Of South America

by Darin A. Croft; Illustration: Velizar Simeonovski

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 An annotated bibliography is included for those interested in delving into the scientific literature.

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Dinosaurs And Other Reptiles From The Mesozoic Of Mexico

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 Presents an overview of dinosaur discoveries in Mexico that synthesizes information about the geography and environment of the region during the Mesozoic when it was the western margin of the ancient continent of Pangea. This book summarizes research on various groups, including turtles, lepidosauromorphs, pleisosaurs, crocodyliforms, pterosaurs.
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Cambrian Ocean World - Ancient Sea Life Of North America

by John Foster

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 The Cambrian Period was a critical time in Earth's history during this immense span of time nearly every modern group of animals appeared. This book deals with the life and times of the amazing animals that inhabited Earth more than 500 million years ago.
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Horned Armadillos And Rafting Monkeys - The Fascinating Fossil Mammals Of South America

by Darin A. Croft; Illustration: Velizar Simeonovski

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 An annotated bibliography is included for those interested in delving into the scientific literature.

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Islands In The Cosmos - The Evolution Of Life On Land

by Dale A. Russell

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 For science, clues have been sought in the genes of living things, in the physical environments of Earth from mountaintops to the depths of the ocean, in the tiniest particles of matter, and in the deepest reaches of space. This title traces a path from the dawn of the universe to speculations about our future on this planet.
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Dinosaur Footprints And Trackways Of La Rioja

by Felix Perez-Lorente

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 During the Early Cretaceous, lakes, meandering streams, and flood plains covered the region where the current foothills of Rioja now exist. This book provides a synthesis of that research in English. It offers descriptions of sites, footprints, and trackways, and explains what these prints and tracks can tell us about the animals who made them.
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White River Badlands - Geology And Paleontology

by Emmett Evanoff, Hugh Gregory Mcdonald, Jr. Dennis O. Terry e Rachel C. Benton

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 <DIV>This guide to the South Dakota region that houses the world’s richest fossil beds does "an excellent job of presenting the current state of knowledge" (Choice). The forbidding Big Badlands in Western South Dakota contain the richest fossil beds in the world. Even today these rocks continue to yield new specimens brought to light by snowmelt and rain washing away soft rock deposited on a floodplain long ago. The quality and quantity of the fossils are superb: most of the species to be found there are known from hundreds of specimens. The fossils in the White River Group (and similar deposits in the American west) preserve the entire late Eocene through the middle Oligocene, roughly 35-30 million years ago and more than thirty million years after non-avian dinosaurs became extinct. The fossils provide a detailed record of a period of abrupt global cooling and what happened to creatures who lived through it. This book is a comprehensive reference to the sediments and fossils of the Big Badlands, and also touches on National Park Service management policies that help protect such significant fossils. Includes photos and illustrations "A worthy successor to the work of O’Harra." —Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology</DIV>
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Biology Of The Sauropod Dinosaurs - Understanding The Life Of Giants

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 Exploring the mysteries of gigantism in the largest land creature that ever lived
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Sea Without Fish - Life In The Ordovician Sea Of The Cincinnati Region

by David L. Meyer e Richard Arnold Davis

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 An introduction to the rocks, fossils, and ancient sea-dwelling animals of the Cincinnatian
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