Feathered Dragons: Studies on the Transition from Dinosaurs to Birds

الغلاف الأمامي
Philip J. Currie
Indiana University Press, 2004 - 361 من الصفحات

Meat-eating theropod dinosaurs have been recognized as potential ancestors of birds since the 19th century, but it was not until the 1960s that work on Deinonychus revealed the startling similarities between dinosaurs and birds. With each new small theropod find the ties became stronger, until the discovery of Sinosauropteryx--a dinosaur with feathers! Though not all scientists accept the concept of birds' being phylogenetically nested within the Dinosauria, others are now focusing on the evolution of feathers and avian flight. This book presents 15 new pieces of research, including the first detailed description of Bambiraptor, a remarkable new specimen from Montana.

Contributors are Robert T. Bakker, David Burnham, Sankar Chatterjee, Luis M. Chiappe, James M. Clark, Philip J. Currie, Stephen J. Godfrey, Gerald Grellet-Turner, Thomas P. Hopp, Frankie K. Jackson, Peter J. Makovicky, Mark A. Norell, Fernando E. Novas, Mark J. Orsen, Gregory J. Retallack, Dale A. Russell, R. J. Templin, David J. Varricchio, Peter Wellnhofer, and Joanna L. Wright.

 

المحتوى

Dinosaurs Acting Like Birds and Vice VersaAn Homage to the Reverend
1
The Dinosaurian Setting of Primitive Asian Birds Dale A Russell
15
EndCretaceous Acid Rain as a Selective Extinction Mechanism between Birds
35
Osteology and Ichnology
65
A New Dromaeosaurid from the Horseshoe Canyon Formation Upper Cretaceous
112
The Braincase of Velociraptor
134
A Theropod Dromaeosauridae Dinosauria Sternal Plate from the Dinosaur Park
144
Avialae
150
Implications for Understanding the Origin of Birds
185
Reproductive Physiology in the Dinosaur Troodon formosus
215
Dinosaur Brooding Behavior and the Origin of Flight Feathers
237
SANKAR CHATTERJEE AND R J TEMPLIN
251
Feathers of a Dinosaur?
282
Theropod Behavior at Como Bluff Wyoming
301
Index
343
215
349

BirdLike Features of Dinosaur Footprints
175

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نبذة عن المؤلف (2004)

Philip J. Currie is Curator of Dinosaurs at the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology. Eva B. Koppelhus is a palynologist and Adjunct Research Scientist at the Royal Tyrrell Museum. Martin A. Shugar, M.D., F.A.C.S., was director of the Florida Institute of Paleontology at the Graves Museum of Archaeology and Natural History. Joanna L. Wright is Assistant Professor of Geology at the University of Colorado at Denver and Associate Director, CU-MWC Fossil Footprint Collection.

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