Ecology and Behaviour of Mesozoic ReptilesSpringer Science & Business Media, 19 ene 2005 - 219 páginas Our knowledge of extinct animals depends almost entirely upon the study of fossils. This richly illustrated book clothes the skeletons of dinosaurs and other Mesozoic reptiles with flesh, and shows how these fascinating animals evolved and probably lived. Expert author John L. Cloudsley-Thompson provides an interesting synthesis of current views on their ecology, physiology and behaviour, and outlines the various hypotheses that have been proposed to explain their extinction. Numerous beautiful drawings of the animals and their environment illustrate this exciting monograph. |
Índice
Classification | 1 |
Diversification of Palaeozoic Reptiles | 9 |
The Mesozoic Environment | 20 |
Plesiosaurs and Ichthyosaurs | 46 |
9 | 57 |
Aerial Mesozoic Reptiles | 61 |
10 | 64 |
Therapsids Anapsids and Early Diapsids | 113 |
Weapons Display and Reproduction | 125 |
Herbivorous Dinosaurs | 149 |
Carnivorous Dinosaurs | 171 |
The Cretaceous Extinction | 189 |
Epilogue | 201 |
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Ecology and Behaviour of Mesozoic Reptiles John L. Cloudsley-Thompson No hay ninguna vista previa disponible - 2010 |
Términos y frases comunes
adapted anapsids animals ankylosaurs Apatosaurus aquatic archosaurs armour Bakker beak behaviour Benton bipedal birds body bones bony Brachiosaurus carnivorous carnosaurs ceratopsians Charig claws Cloudsley-Thompson 1999 crests Cretaceous period crocodiles crocodilians diapsid Dimorphodon dinosaurs display Dodson eggs elongated endothermic Eudimorphodon evolution evolved extinction Farlow feathers fishes flight forelimbs forms fossil record fossilised genera hadrosaurids hadrosaurs head heat herbivorous herbivorous dinosaurs hind legs horns hypsilophodonts ichthyosaurs jaws larger Late Triassic length limbs lizards locomotion Lower Cretaceous Lower Jurassic Lower Triassic mammals marine Mesozoic Mesozoic reptiles metabolic Middle Triassic modern muscles North America Ornithischia Padian Palmer Permian plesiosaurs predators prey probably prosauropods Pteranodon pterodactyloids pterosaurs quadrupedal Quetzalcoatlus reptiles Rhamphorhynchoidea sauropods saurs saurus Sect skeletons skull smaller species stegosaurs suggested tachymetabolic tail taxa teeth temperature terrestrial therapsids theropods tion tonnes toothless Triceratops turtles Upper Cretaceous Upper Jurassic Upper Triassic vegetation vertebrates weight Wellnhofer 1991 wings wingspan
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Página 204 - MJ (1983) Dinosaur success in the Triassic: A noncompetitive ecological model, Q. Rev. Biol., 58, 29-55 Benton, MJ (1987) Progress and competition in macroevolution, Biol.
Página 205 - Chin, K. 1997. What did dinosaurs eat? Coprolites and other direct evidence of dinosaur diets.
Página 206 - Morphological constraints on tetrapod feeding mechanisms: why were there no suspension-feeding marine reptiles?