Dinosaurs : The Encyclopedia, Supplement 5 (Dinosaurs: the Encyclopedia)

Glut, Donald F.

McFarland & Co Inc（2022/03発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 808 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781476688626
• DDC分類 567.903

Full Description

Here is the fifth supplement to Dinosaurs: The Encyclopedia, a 1998 American Library Association Outstanding Reference Book. Since the publication of the acclaimed first volume, a virtual explosion in the number of exciting discoveries in dinosaur paleontology has made supplemental volumes necessary and indispensable. Among the many dramatic events discussed in the fifth supplement are the discovery of what may be the largest Jurassic theropod specimen yet collected; the uncovering of evidence of a dinosaur possessing opposable fingers; and Robert M. Sullivan's reassessment of Pachycepholasauria. Like the previous supplements, this volume includes lengthy sections on dinosaurian schematics and genera and updates the encyclopedia's list of excluded genera.

Supplemental volumes do not repeat information from earlier volumes, but build upon them: view all volumes on the series page.

Contents

Table of Contents

Foreword, by Kenneth Carpenter, Ph.D.     

Acknowledgments     

Preface     

I. Introduction     

The Mesozoic Era     

New Discoveries, Ideas and Studies     

More on Ectothermy Versus Endothermy     

Dinosaurs and Birds     

Dinosaur Extinctions     

II. Dinosaurian Systematics     

III. Dinosaurian Genera     

IV. Nomen Nudum and Excluded Genera     

A List of Abbreviations     

Appendix: Main-Entry Catalog of Genera     

Glossary     

Bibliography     

Index