The Complete Dinosaur (Life of the Past) - Hardcover

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ISBN 10: 0253357012 ISBN 13: 9780253357014

Verlag: Indiana University Press, 2012

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The most thorough and up-to-date survey of dinosaurs available

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M. K. Brett-Surman is Museum Specialist at the National Museum of Natural History of the Smithsonian Institution.

Thomas R. Holtz, Jr., is Senior Lecturer and Director, Earth, Life and Time Program, Department of Geology, University of Maryland.

James O. Farlow is Professor of Geology at Indiana University–Purdue University at Ft. Wayne.

M. K. Brett-Surman is Museum Specialist at the National Museum of Natural History of the Smithsonian Institution.

Thomas R. Holtz, Jr., is Senior Lecturer and Director, Earth, Life and Time Program, Department of Geology, University of Maryland.

James O. Farlow is Professor of Geology at Indiana University–Purdue University at Ft. Wayne.

M. K. Brett-Surman is Museum Specialist at the National Museum of Natural History of the Smithsonian Institution.

Thomas R. Holtz, Jr., is Senior Lecturer and Director, Earth, Life and Time Program, Department of Geology, University of Maryland.

James O. Farlow is Professor of Geology at Indiana University–Purdue University at Ft. Wayne.

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The Complete Dinosaur

By M. K. Brett-Surman, Thomas R. Holtz Jr., James O. Farlow

Indiana University Press

Copyright © 2012 Indiana University Press
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ISBN: 978-0-253-35701-4

Contents

Dinosauria, 
Contributors, 
Part 1 The Discovery of Dinosaurs, 
1 Dinosaurs: The Earliest Discoveries David A. E. Spalding and William A. S. Sarjeant, 
2 Politics and Paleontology: Richard Owen and the Invention of Dinosaurs Hugh S. Torrens, 
3 European Dinosaur Hunters of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Hans-Dieter Sues, 
4 North American Dinosaur Hunters Edwin H. Colbert, David D. Gillette, and Ralph E. Molnar, 
5 The Search for Dinosaurs in Asia Corwin Sullivan, David W. E. Hone, and Xing Xu, 
6 Dinosaur Hunters of the Southern Continents Thomas R. Holtz Jr., 
Part 2 The Study of Dinosaurs, 
7 Hunting for Dinosaur Bones David D. Gillette, 
8 The Osteology of the Dinosaurs Thomas R. Holtz Jr. and M. K. Brett-Surman, 
9 Reconstructing the Musculature of Dinosaurs David W. Dilkes, John R. Hutchinson, Casey M. Holliday, and Lawrence M. Witmer, 
10 Dinosaur Paleoneurology Emily Buchholtz, 
11 The Taxonomy and Systematics of the Dinosaurs Thomas R. Holtz Jr. and M. K. Brett-Surman, 
12 Dinosaurs and Geologic Time James I. Kirkland and James O. Farlow, 
13 Technology and the Study of Dinosaurs Ralph E. Chapman, Art Andersen, Brent H. Breithaupt, and Neffra A. Matthews, 
14 Claws, Scales, Beaks, and Feathers: Molecular Traces in the Fossil Record Mary Higby Schweitzer and Mark Marshall, 
15 Dinosaurs as Museum Exhibits Kenneth Carpenter, 
16 Restoring Dinosaurs as Living Animals Douglas Henderson, 
Part 3 The Clades of Dinosaurs, 
17 Evolution of the Archosaurs J. Michael Parrish, 
18 Origin and Early Evolution of Dinosaurs Michael J. Benton, 
19 Theropods Thomas R. Holtz Jr., 
20 Birds Darren Naish, 
21 Basal Sauropodomorpha: The "Prosauropods" Adam M. Yates, 
22 Sauropoda Jeffrey A. Wilson and Kristina Curry Rogers, 
23 Stegosaurs Peter M. Galton, 
24 Ankylosaurs Kenneth Carpenter, 
25 Marginocephalia Peter Makovicky, 
26 Ornithopods Richard J. Butler and Paul M. Barrett, 
Part 4 Paleobiology of the Dinosaurs, 
27 Land Plants as a Source of Food and Environment in the Age of Dinosaurs Bruce H. Tiffney, 
28 What Did Dinosaurs Eat: Coprolites and Other Direct Evidence of Dinosaur Diets Karen Chin, 
29 Reproductive Biology of Dinosaurs Terry D. Jones and Nicholas R. Geist, 
30 Dinosaur Eggs Darla K. Zelenitsky, John R. Horner, and François Therrien, 
31 How Dinosaurs Grew R. E. H. Reid (with introductory note by Gregory M. Erickson), 
32 Engineering a Dinosaur Donald Henderson, 
33 Disease in Dinosaurs Elizabeth Rega, 
34 The Scientific Study of Dinosaur Footprints James O. Farlow, Ralph E. Chapman, Brent Breithaupt, and Neffra Matthews, 
35 The Role of Heterochrony in Dinosaur Evolution Kenneth J. McNamara and John A. Long, 
36 Metabolic Physiology of Dinosaurs and Early Birds John A. Ruben, Terry D. Jones, Nicholas R. Geist, Willem J. Hillenius, Amy E. Harwell, and Devon E. Quick, 
37 Evidence for Avian-Mammalian Aerobic Capacity and Thermoregulation in Mesozoic Dinosaurs Gregory S. Paul, 
38 "Intermediate" Dinosaurs: The Case Updated R. E. H. Reid, 
Part 5 Dinosaur Evolution in the Mesozoic, 
39 Principles of Paleobiogeography in the Mesozoic Ralph E. Molnar, 
40 Non-Dinosaurian Vertebrates Nicholas C. Fraser, 
41 Early Mesozoic Continental Tetrapods and Faunal Changes Hans-Dieter Sues, 
42 Dinosaurian Faunas of the Later Mesozoic Matthew T. Carrano, 
43 Dinosaur Extinction: Past and Present Perspectives J. David Archibald, 
44 Life after Death: Dinosaur Fossils in Human Hands Daniel J. Chure, 
45 Dinosaurs and Evolutionary Theory Kevin Padian and Elisabeth K. Burton, 
Appendix: Dinosaur-Related Websites, 
Glossary, 
Index, 

CHAPTER 1

Dinosaurs: The Earliest Discoveries

David A. E. Spalding and William A. S. Sarjeant (1935–2002)

The first trackers of dinosaurs were probably other dinosaurs, as tracks have been found apparently showing carnivorous species following herbivores (Lockley 1991, 184). More recently, there is evidence that some early people, whose livelihood came partly from tracking, killing, and dismembering animals, sometimes observed and found significance in tracks, bones, and eggs of long-extinct species of no culinary value.

Traditional knowledge of large fossils has been found to persist among aboriginal peoples on several continents. Pertinent observations have been documented, but often in sources that have not generally received the attention of paleontologists until recent decades. Dinosaur trackways in situ have apparently been marked by petroglyphs and pictographs of uncertain age, so that they can be seen to have been of some significance to their finders. Other specimens have been collected in ancient times and are now found in archaeological contexts. The surviving oral and published record is widely scattered through ancient, medieval, and later literature and appears in the forms of folklore, the tales of travelers, visual records of legendary events, and oral data collected and documented by anthropologists, dinosaur researchers, and aboriginal people. Prescientific cultures have offered a variety of explanations for the remains they observed ranging from mythological to protoscientific.

In this chapter we summarize what is known of early observations of dinosaurs, in approximately chronological sequence before the rise of modern paleontology, discuss the scientific discoveries which led to the naming of the first two genera, and mention the other genera named before Owen recognized a common identity among the remains in 1841.

Simpson's classic paper (1942, 131) presents a framework for the history of fossil vertebrate discoveries. He recognizes a number of periods in North American vertebrate paleontology, of which we are here concerned with the first three. Simpson's prescientific period includes early discoveries and removal of some specimens to Europe, but "no truly scientific study ... had been made." This period extends in North America "from the earliest times to about 1762." Simpson's protoscientific period extends from about 1762 to 1799, in which "vertebrate paleontology was not yet a true science but basic methods were being invented and sporadically applied." In the pioneer scientific period (1799–ca. 1842), Cuvier established the subject "as a true and defined science," while others adopted Cuvier's methods. While there is room for discussion of the appropriate dates of application of the periods outside North America, Simpson's structure provides a useful framework.

Other writers have extended and elaborated on Simpson's approach, paying particular attention to the early beginnings of science in the Western world. Numerous classic dinosaur texts have been pulled together in Weishampel and White (2003). Surveys of early dinosaur discoveries have been published by Buffetaut and Le Loeuff (1993), Delair and Sarjeant (1975, 2002), and Sarjeant (1987, 1997, 2003). Recent books by Adrienne Mayor (2000, 2005) and Jose Sanz (1999), and papers by Mayor (2007) and Mayor and Sarjeant (2001) have addressed discoveries of fossils in ancient civilizations and ethnographic contexts, shedding much light on the beginnings of discovery and interpretation of fossil...

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• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0253357012
• ISBN 13: 9780253357014
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Zeichner: Walters Bob
• Auflage: 2
• Anzahl der Seiten: 1112
• Herausgeber: Brett-Surman M. K., Holtz Thomas R. Jr., Farlow James O.
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