Michael J. Everhart

Oceans of Kansas, Second Edition: A Natural History of the Western Interior Sea

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Produktbeschreibung

Michael J. Everhart, Adjunct Curator of Paleontology at the Sternberg Museum of Natural History in Hays, Kansas, is an expert on the Late Cretaceous of western Kansas. He is the creator of the award-winning "Oceans of Kansas" paleontology website at www.oceansofkansas.com. He lives in Derby, Kansas.

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Produktdetails

• Life of the Past
• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 460
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. September 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 261mm x 186mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 1572g
• ISBN-13: 9780253026323
• ISBN-10: 0253026326
• Artikelnr.: 46879900

Autorenporträt

Michael J. Everhart, Adjunct Curator of Paleontology at the Sternberg Museum of Natural History in Hays, Kansas, is an expert on the Late Cretaceous of western Kansas. He is the creator of the award-winning "Oceans of Kansas" paleontology website at www.oceansofkansas.com. He lives in Derby, Kansas.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
1. Introduction: An Ocean in Kansas?
2. Our Discovery of the Western Interior Sea
3. Invertebrates, Plants, and Trace Fossils
4. Sharks: Sharp Teeth and Shell Crushers
5. Fishes, Large and Small
6. Turtles: Leatherback Giants
7. Where the Elasmosaurs Roamed
8. Pliosaurs and Polycotylids
9. Enter the Mosasaurs
10. Pteranodons: Rulers of the Air
11. Feathers and Teeth
12. Dinosaurs?
13. The Big Picture
Epilogue: Where Did It Go?
References
Index