Dinosaurs: The Most Complete, Up-to-Date Encyclopedia for Dinosaur Lovers of All Ages

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Dinosaurs: The Most Complete, Up-to-Date Encyclopedia for Dinosaur Lovers of All Ages
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Author Thomas R. Holtz Jr., Luis Rey
Language English
Genre Reference encyclopedia
Publisher Random House
Publication date
 2007
Pages 432
ISBN 978-0-375-82419-7
OCLC 77486015

Dinosaurs: The Most Complete, Up-to-Date Encyclopedia for Dinosaur Lovers of All Ages is a book by Dr. Thomas R. Holtz, Jr., with illustrations by Luis Rey. It was published in 2007 by Random House.[1]

Table of contents

  • Introduction. The world of dinosaurs
  • Chapter 1. History of dinosaur discoveries
  • Chapter 2. Rocks and environment
  • Chapter 3. Fossils and fossilization
  • Chapter 4. Geologic time: how old is that dinosaur, and how do we know?
  • Chapter 5. From the field to the museum: finding fossils
  • Chapter 6. Bringing dinosaurs to life: the science of dinosaur art
  • Chapter 7. Taxonomy: why do dinosaurs have such strange names?
  • Chapter 8. Evolution: descent with modification
  • Chapter 9. Cladistics: figuring out the dinosaur family tree
  • Chapter 10. Evolution of the vertebrates
  • Chapter 11. The origin of dinosaurs
  • Chapter 12. Saurischians (lizard-hipped dinosaurs)
  • Chapter 13. Coelophysoids and Ceratosaurs (primitive meat-eating dinosaurs)
  • Chapter 14. Spinosauroids (megalosaurs and the fin-backed fish-eating dinosaurs)
  • Chapter 15. Carnosaurs (giant meat-eating dinosaurs)
  • Chapter 16. Primitive Coelurosaurs (the first fluffy dinosaurs)
  • Chapter 17. Tyrannosauroids (tyrant dinosaurs)
  • Chapter 18. Ornithomimosaurs and Alvarezsaurs (ostrich and thumb-clawed dinosaurs)
  • Chapter 19. Oviraptorosaurs and Therizinosauroids (egg-thief and sloth dinosaurs)
  • Chapter 20. Deinonychosaurs (raptor dinosaurs)
  • Chapter 21. Avialians (birds)
  • Chapter 22. Prosauropods (primitive long-necked plant-eating dinosaurs)
  • Chapter 23. Primitive Sauropods (early giant long-necked dinosaurs)
  • Chapter 24. Diplodocoids (whip-tailed giant long-necked dinosaurs)
  • Chapter 25. Macronarians (big-nosed giant long-necked dinosaurs)
  • Chapter 26. Ornithischians (bird-hipped dinosaurs)
  • Chapter 27. Primitive Thyreophorans (early armored dinosaurs)
  • Chapter 28. Stegosaurs (plated dinosaurs)
  • Chapter 29. Ankylosaurs (tank dinosaurs)
  • Chapter 30. Primitive Ornithopods (primitive beaked dinosaurs)
  • Chapter 31. Iguanodontians (advanced beaked dinosaurs)
  • Chapter 32. Hadrosaurids (duckbilled dinosaurs)
  • Chapter 33. Pachycephalosaurs (domeheaded dinosaurs)
  • Chapter 34. Primitive Ceratopsians (parrot and frilled dinosaurs)
  • Chapter 35. Ceratopsids (horned dinosaurs)
  • Chapter 36. Dinosaur eggs and babies
  • Chapter 37. Dinosaur behavior: how did dinosaurs act, and how do we know?
  • Chapter 38. Dinosaur biology: living, breathing dinosaurs
  • Chapter 39. Life in the Triassic Period
  • Chapter 40. Life in the Jurassic Period
  • Chapter 41. Life in the Cretaceous Period
  • Chapter 42. Extinctions: the world of the dinosaurs ends

References

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