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The evolution and extinction of the dinosaurs

Written for non-specialists, this detailed survey of dinosaur origins, diversity, and extinction is designed as a series of successive essays covering important and timely topics in dinosaur paleobiology, such as "warm-bloodedness," birds as living dinosaurs, the new, non-flying feathered dinosaurs, dinosaur functional morphology, and cladistic methods in systematics. Its explicitly phylogenetic approach to the group is that taken by dinosaur specialists. The book is not an edited compilation of the works of many individuals, but a unique, cohesive perspective on Dinosauria.---Publisher description
Print Book, English, 2005
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2005
x, 485 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm
9780521811729, 9780521010467, 0521811724, 0521010462
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Introduction
The Mesozoic Era
Discovering Order
Interrelationships
Origin of Dinosauria
Saurischia
Sauropoda
Theropoda
The Origin of birds
Mesozoic Birds
Ornithischia
Stegosauria
Ankylosauria
Pachycephalosauria
Ceratopsia
Ornithopoda
Endothermy
Dinosaur Paleoecology
Reconstructing Extinctions
The Cretaceous/Tertiary extinction