Description
Book SynopsisTrade Review...a comprehensive and fascinating insight for all into the lives of these enigmatic creatures.
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GeoscientistThis technical book gives a detailed and substantial taxon-by-taxon overview of what dinosaur skulls, jaws, and teeth reveal about what, but especially how dinosaurs ate. This is a welcome survey of an otherwise scattered literature that will be invaluable for specialists.
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The Inquisitive BiologistTable of ContentsAcknowledgements
1. Early Dinosaur Feeding Studies and an Introduction to Mesozoic Landscapes and Dietary Ecology
2. Bones, Teeth, Muscle, and the Study of Functional Morphology
3. An Overview of Dinosaur Anatomy
4. Early Dinosaurs and Non-Tetanuran Theropods
5. Early Tetanuran, Spinosaurid, and Allosauroid Theropods
6. Early Coelurosaurian and Tyrannosauroid Theropods
7. Maniraptoriform Theropods
8. Early Sauropodomorphs and the Rise of Sauropods
9. Neosauropods
10. Heterodontosaurids and Early Thyreophorans
11. Eurypodans
12. Early Neornithischians and Ornithopods
13. Marginocephalians
14. Shaping Dinosaur Ecosystems
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