The Dinosauria, Second Edition

Ed. by David B. Weishampel, Peter Dodson and Halszka Osmolska

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Includes comprehensive coverage of dinosaur systematics, reproduction, and life history strategies, biogeography, taphonomy, paleoecology, thermoregulation, and extinction. This book offers documentation of dinosaur distribution through time and space, and discussion of the interface between geology and biology.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of California Press
• 2nd ed.
• Seitenzahl: 880
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Dezember 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 279mm x 215mm x 48mm
• Gewicht: 2374g
• ISBN-13: 9780520254084
• ISBN-10: 0520254082
• Artikelnr.: 22799942

Autorenporträt

David B. Weishampel is a Professor at the Center for Functional Anatomy and Evolution at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He is coauthor, with D. E. Fastovsky, of The Evolution and Extinction of Dinosaurs (1996) and coauthor, with L. Young, of The Dinosaurs of the East Coast (1996). Peter Dodson is Professor of Anatomy at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine. He is the author of Horned Dinosaurs: A Natural History. Halszka Osmólska is Professor of Paleontology at the Paleobiological Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw.