Illustrator: Alain Bénéteau. — Princeton University Press, 2023. — 208 p. During the Mesozoic era, 252 to 66 million years ago, dinosaurs ruled the land, but the ocean deeps were roiling with equally spectacular reptiles—including giant predators. This richly illustrated, authoritative, and accessible book introduces readers to the world of these fascinating marine animals,...
Illustrator: Alain Bénéteau. — Princeton University Press, 2023. — 208 p. — ISBN13 9780691243948. — ISBN10 0691243948. During the Mesozoic era, 252 to 66 million years ago, dinosaurs ruled the land, but the ocean deeps were roiling with equally spectacular reptiles—including giant predators. This richly illustrated, authoritative, and accessible book introduces readers to the...
DK, 2021. — 162 p. Who's ready for a round-the-world trip of epic dinosaur proportions? Pack your bags and let's go! On this adventure, you'll travel back in time to see more than 40 dinosaurs come to life! The geography book for kids explores each continent, revealing fossil sites and stories on every map. A unique children's atlas that brings weird and wonderful prehistoric...
Updated new edition. — DK, 2021. — 160 p. Journey back in time and find out where dinosaurs roamed. This unique children's atlas explores each continent, revealing fossil sites and stories on every map. This atlas is packed with maps of early Earth and more than 40 profiles of dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals. Stare down a T-Rex in North America. Watch out for...
Updated new edition. — DK, 2021. — 160 p. Journey back in time and find out where dinosaurs roamed. This unique children's atlas explores each continent, revealing fossil sites and stories on every map. This atlas is packed with maps of early Earth and more than 40 profiles of dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals. Stare down a T-Rex in North America. Watch out for...
Thames & Hudson, 2021. — 256 p. The world’s leading paleontologist takes us on a visual tour of the latest dinosaur science, illustrated with accurate and stunning paleoart. Dinosaurs are not what you thought they were - or at least, they didn’t look like you thought they did. Here, world-leading paleontologist Michael J. Benton brings us a new visual guide to the world of the...
Монография. Cambridge University Press. 2001. - 672 pages (на английском языке). Фундаментальный труд американских и русских палеонтологов. Авторы попытались дать подробную картину распространения палеогеновых рептилий и млекопитающих на территории бывшего СССР и Монголии. Кроме описания отдельных таксонов, большое внимание уделяется истории палеонтологических раскопок и...
Illustrator: Bob Nicholls. — Princeton University Press, 2023. — 224 p. A stunningly illustrated guide to these extraordinary creatures from a world-renowned paleontologist. Paleobiology has advanced from a speculative subject to a cutting-edge science. Today, researchers are applying the latest forensic technologies to the fossil record, revealing startling new insights into...
Illustrator: Bob Nicholls. — Princeton University Press, 2023. — 224 p. A stunningly illustrated guide to these extraordinary creatures from a world-renowned paleontologist. Paleobiology has advanced from a speculative subject to a cutting-edge science. Today, researchers are applying the latest forensic technologies to the fossil record, revealing startling new insights into...
Thames & Hudson, 2019. — 352 p. In this fascinating and accessible overview, renowned paleontologist Michael J. Benton reveals how our understanding of dinosaurs is being transformed by recent fossil finds and new technology. Over the past twenty years, the study of dinosaurs has transformed into a true scientific discipline. New technologies have revealed secrets locked in...
Thames & Hudson, 2019. — 352 p. In this fascinating and accessible overview, renowned paleontologist Michael J. Benton reveals how our understanding of dinosaurs is being transformed by recent fossil finds and new technology. Over the past twenty years, the study of dinosaurs has transformed into a true scientific discipline. New technologies have revealed secrets locked in...
Illustrator: Bob Nicholls. — Thames & Hudson, 2021. — 256 p. The world’s leading paleontologist takes us on a visual tour of the latest dinosaur science, illustrated with accurate and stunning paleoart. Dinosaurs are not what you thought they were - or at least, they didn’t look like you thought they did. Here, world-leading paleontologist Michael J. Benton brings us a new...
St. Martin's Press, 2022. — 304 p. In The Last Days of the Dinosaurs , Riley Black walks readers through what happened in the days, the years, the centuries, and the million years after the impact, tracking the sweeping disruptions that overtook this one spot, and imagining what might have been happening elsewhere on the globe. Life’s losses were sharp and deeply-felt, but the...
Skyhorse, 2021. — 264 p. It all began in 1993. Jurassic Park was a movie landmark in the development of computer-generated imagery and animatronic visual effects. Jurassic Park became the highest-grossing movie of that year, and the highest-grossing film ever at the time, a record held until the 1997 release of Titanic . The field of dinosaur science has blossomed by leaps and...
2nd edition - USA, Indiana University Press, 2012. - 1272p.
What do we know about dinosaurs, and how do we know it? How did dinosaurs grow, move, eat, and reproduce? Were they warm-blooded or cold-blooded? How intelligent were they? How are the various groups of dinosaurs related to each other, and to other kinds of living and extinct vertebrates? What can the study of...
2nd edition. — Indiana University Press, 2012. — 1272 p. What do we know about dinosaurs, and how do we know it? How did dinosaurs grow, move, eat, and reproduce? Were they warm-blooded or cold-blooded? How intelligent were they? How are the various groups of dinosaurs related to each other, and to other kinds of living and extinct vertebrates? What can the study of dinosaurs tell...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2012. — 336 p. The study of dinosaurs has been experiencing a remarkable renaissance over the past few decades. Scientific understanding of dinosaur anatomy, biology, and evolution has advanced to such a degree that paleontologists often know more about 100-million-year-old dinosaurs than many species of living organisms. This book provides a contemporary review...
Quill Tree Books, 2021. — 272 p. Even though the dinosaurs roamed the earth millions of years ago, we’re still piecing together new information about these ancient animals. Did you know that, on average, a new species of dinosaur is discovered every single week? Or that many dinosaurs had feathers? Or that there are even modern-day dinosaurs walking around right now ? New York...
Quill Tree Books, 2021. — 272 p. Even though the dinosaurs roamed the earth millions of years ago, we’re still piecing together new information about these ancient animals. Did you know that, on average, a new species of dinosaur is discovered every single week? Or that many dinosaurs had feathers? Or that there are even modern-day dinosaurs walking around right now ? New York...
William Morrow, 2018. — 416 p. 66 million years ago the dinosaurs were wiped from the face of the earth. Today, Dr. Steve Brusatte, one of the leading scientists of a new generation of dinosaur hunters, armed with cutting edge technology, is piecing together the complete story of how the dinosaurs ruled the earth for 150 million years. The world of the dinosaurs has fascinated on...
William Morrow, 2018. — 251 p. — ISBN10: 0062490427, 13 978-0062490421. New York Times bestseller! The book is in winners of 2018 Goodreads Choice Awards. Readers vote! In this captivating narrative (enlivened with more than seventy original illustrations and photographs), Steve Brusatte, a young American paleontologist who has emerged as one of the foremost stars of the...
London: Geological Society Publishing, 2003. — 347 p. — ISBN13: 978-1862391437. Pterosaurs were a peculiar group of Mesozoic vertebrates, which acquired the ability to fly in an original way, using a membrane attached to a single finger of the hand. Ever since the first description of a pterosaur skeleton in 1784, these remarkable animals have elicited much discussion and...
2nd Edition. — University Alabama Press, 2016. — 352 p. The Steven C. Minkin (Union Chapel) Paleozoic Footprint Site ranks among the most important fossil sites in the world today, and Footprints in Stone recounts the accidental revelation of its existence and detailed findings about its fossil record. Currently 2,500 miles from the equator and more than 250 miles north of the...
Academic Press, 1997. — 501 p. — ISBN 10 0121552101, ISBN-13 978-0121552107. Vertebrate evolution has led to the convergent appearance of many groups of originally terrestrial animals that now live in the sea. Among these groups are familiar mammals like whales, dolphins, and seals. There are also reptilian lineages (like plesiosaurs, ichthyosaurs, mosasaurs, thalattosaurs, and...
Indiana University Press, 2006. — 384 p. Horns and Beaks completes Ken Carpenter’s series on the major dinosaur types. As with his volumes on armored, carnivorous, and sauropodomorph dinosaurs, this book collects original and new information, reflecting the latest discoveries and research on these two groups of animals. The Ornithopods include Iguanodon, one of the first dinosaurs...
Indiana University Press, 2006. — 384 p. Horns and Beaks completes Ken Carpenter’s series on the major dinosaur types. As with his volumes on armored, carnivorous, and sauropodomorph dinosaurs, this book collects original and new information, reflecting the latest discoveries and research on these two groups of animals. The Ornithopods include Iguanodon, one of the first dinosaurs...
2nd Printing edition — Indiana University Press, 2005. — 392 p. The meat-eating dinosaurs, or Theropoda, include some of the fiercest predators that ever lived. Some of the group’s members survive to this day - as birds. The theropod/bird connection has been explored in several recent works, but this book presents 17 papers on a variety of other topics. It is organized into three...
Springer, 2005. — 219 p. This richly illustrated book clothes the skeletons of dinosaurs and other Mesozoic reptiles with flesh, and shows how these fascinating animals evolved and probably lived. Expert author John L. Cloudsley-Thompson synthesizes current views on ecology, physiology and behaviour, and outlines the various hypotheses that have been proposed to explain their...
Illustrator: Julius Csotonyi. — University of Texas Press, 2023. — 240 p. The sheer beauty of Big Bend National Park, along the shores of the Rio Grande in west Texas, never fails to astonish. Yet what lies beneath this natural treasure may be even more extraordinary than what meets the eye. Hidden in the rocks of Big Bend are the remains of giants: toothy sea lizards, enormous...
Illustrator: Julius Csotonyi. — University of Texas Press, 2023. — 240 p. The sheer beauty of Big Bend National Park, along the shores of the Rio Grande in west Texas, never fails to astonish. Yet what lies beneath this natural treasure may be even more extraordinary than what meets the eye. Hidden in the rocks of Big Bend are the remains of giants: toothy sea lizards, enormous...
Indiana University Press, 2014. — 623 p. Hadrosaurs - also known as duck-billed dinosaurs - are abundant in the fossil record. With their unique complex jaws and teeth perfectly suited to shred and chew plants, they flourished on Earth in remarkable diversity during the Late Cretaceous. So ubiquitous are their remains that we have learned more about dinosaurian paleobiology and...
Indiana University Press, 2016. — 428 р. — (Life of the Past). — ISBN: 978-0253021021. The latest advances in dinosaur ichnology are showcased in this comprehensive and timely volume, in which leading researchers and research groups cover the most essential topics in the study of dinosaur tracks. Some assess and demonstrate state-of-the-art approaches and techniques, such as...
Indiana University Press, 2018. — 750 p. How can the tracks of dinosaurs best be interpreted and used to reconstruct them? In many Mesozoic sedimentary rock formations, fossilized footprints of bipedal, three-toed (tridactyl) dinosaurs are preserved in huge numbers, often with few or no skeletons. Such tracks sometimes provide the only clues to the former presence of dinosaurs,...
Indiana University Press, 2018. — 750 p. How can the tracks of dinosaurs best be interpreted and used to reconstruct them? In many Mesozoic sedimentary rock formations, fossilized footprints of bipedal, three-toed (tridactyl) dinosaurs are preserved in huge numbers, often with few or no skeletons. Such tracks sometimes provide the only clues to the former presence of dinosaurs,...
Indiana University Press, 2018. — 750 p. How can the tracks of dinosaurs best be interpreted and used to reconstruct them? In many Mesozoic sedimentary rock formations, fossilized footprints of bipedal, three-toed (tridactyl) dinosaurs are preserved in huge numbers, often with few or no skeletons. Such tracks sometimes provide the only clues to the former presence of dinosaurs,...
Indiana University Press, 2018. — 750 p. How can the tracks of dinosaurs best be interpreted and used to reconstruct them? In many Mesozoic sedimentary rock formations, fossilized footprints of bipedal, three-toed (tridactyl) dinosaurs are preserved in huge numbers, often with few or no skeletons. Such tracks sometimes provide the only clues to the former presence of dinosaurs,...
3rd Edition — Cambridge University Press, 2016. — 412 p. The ideal textbook for non-science majors, this lively and engaging introduction encourages students to ask questions, assess data critically and think like a scientist. Building on the success of the previous editions, Dinosaurs has been reorganised and extensively rewritten in response to instructor and student...
3rd Edition — Cambridge University Press, 2016. — 412 p. The ideal textbook for non-science majors, this lively and engaging introduction encourages students to ask questions, assess data critically and think like a scientist. Building on the success of the previous editions, Dinosaurs has been reorganised and extensively rewritten in response to instructor and student...
CRC Press, 2017. — 240 p. The Arctic was not always cold and inhospitable. Millions of years ago dinosaurs roamed under tree ferns in a warmer world. This book is a survey of the dinosaurs found in the rocks of this now frigid landscape. The author has spent decades exploring fossil bearing sediments of the Mesozoic and has written a lively and readable account of this ancient...
William Collins, 2018. — 528 p. In this meticulous and absorbing account, Ford reviews the latest scientific evidence to show that the popular accounts of dinosaurs’ lives contain ideas that are no more than convenient inventions: how dinosaurs mated, how they hunted and communicated, how they nursed their young, even how they moved. He uncovers many surprising details which...
2nd Edition — Indiana University Press, 2020. — 560 p. The famous bone beds of the Morrison Formation, formed one hundred and fifty million years ago and running from Wyoming down through the red rock region of the American Southwest, have yielded one of the most complete pictures of any ancient vertebrate ecosystem in the world. Jurassic West, Second Edition tells the story of...
Indiana University Press, 2012. — 176 p. In 1961, while mapping rock exposures along the Colville River in Alaska, an oil company geologist would unknowingly find the evidence for a startling discovery. Long before the North Slope of Alaska was being exploited for its petroleum resources it was a place where dinosaurs roamed. Dinosaurs under the Aurora immerses readers in the...
Indiana University Press, 2012. — 629 p. In 1878, the first complete dinosaur skeleton was discovered in a coal mine in Bernissart, Belgium. Iguanodon, first described by Gideon Mantell on the basis of fragments discovered in England in 1824, was initially reconstructed as an iguana-like reptile or a heavily built, horned quadruped. However, the Bernissart skeleton changed all...
Indiana University Press, 2012. — 629 p. In 1878, the first complete dinosaur skeleton was discovered in a coal mine in Bernissart, Belgium. Iguanodon, first described by Gideon Mantell on the basis of fragments discovered in England in 1824, was initially reconstructed as an iguana-like reptile or a heavily built, horned quadruped. However, the Bernissart skeleton changed all...
Harper & Row, 1990. — 215 p. Introduction. Looking for babies. He first nest. The good mother lizard. Nesting in colonies. The herd. Egg mountain. Haute bones. Babies everywhere. Field chronology. Notes and references.
Cambridge University Press, 2022. — 488 p. Snakes comprise nearly 4,000 extant species found on all major continents except Antarctica. Morphologically and ecologically diverse, they include burrowing, arboreal, and marine forms, feeding on prey ranging from insects to large mammals. Snakes are strikingly different from their closest lizard relatives, and their origins and...
Accompanying the television series, this is an illustrated history of dinosaurs, from their first appearance in the middle of the Triassic period to their sudden demise, 160 million years later, at the end of the Cretaceous era.
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016. — 336 p. From The Land Before Time to Jurassic Park , images of fantastically large, long-necked, plant-eating dinosaurs have captured our imaginations. These are the sauropods: centerpieces of museums and gentle giants of the distant past. Imagine what it must have been like to crest a hill and see in the valley below not just one...
University of Utah Press, 2016. — 118 p. In February 2000, while excavating his property in St. George, Utah, Sheldon Johnson turned over a piece of ground and discovered a fully preserved dinosaur footprint. That track was the first of many fossils to be uncovered. Five years later, the St. George Dinosaur Discovery Site at Johnson Farm was established to preserve one of the...
Arcturus foulsham, 2008 – 162 р. ISBN: 0572034008
This big book of dinosaurs provides the answer to every question the modern dinosaur enthusiast could ever have! Packed with full colour illustrations and bite-sized fact files, this attractive and informative guide takes the intrepid reader on an A to Z journey through the prehistoric world. It provides information on how to...
Arcturus foulsham, 2008. — 208 р. — ISBN: 978-0572034009. This book of dinosaurs provides the answer to every question the modern dinosaur enthusiast could have. Packed iwth full colour illustrations and bit-sized fact files, this guide takes the reader on an A-Z journey through the prehistoric world.
University of California Press, 2003. — 356 p. One of the most geologically complex and diverse states, California spent much of the age of dinosaurs under water. While most of the fossils found in the state are those of reptiles that lived in the sea (thalattosaurs, ichthyosaurs, mosasaurs, plesiosaurs, and turtles), some are those of birds and pterosaurs that soared above it....
Oxford University Press, 1998. — 265 p. The Pleistocene epoch or Ice Age, an extended period of advancing and retreating ice sheets, is characterized by striking climatic oscillations and sea level fluctuations. This age saw the rise and spread of humans and a great extinction of large mammals by the end of the epoch; in fact, the world today is essentially the product of dramatic...
Princeton University Press, 2022. — 280 p. In just the past twenty years, we have learned more about dinosaurs than we did in the previous two centuries. This book describes the extraordinary advances in palaeontology that are beginning to solve many of the mysteries surrounding these marvelous prehistoric creatures, from their ways of communicating to their mating habits, the...
Princeton University Press, 2022. — 280 p. In just the past twenty years, we have learned more about dinosaurs than we did in the previous two centuries. This book describes the extraordinary advances in palaeontology that are beginning to solve many of the mysteries surrounding these marvelous prehistoric creatures, from their ways of communicating to their mating habits, the...
Bloomsbury, 2016. — 304 p. Adored by children and adults alike, Tyrannosaurus is the most famous dinosaur in the world, one that pops up again and again in pop culture, often battling other beasts such as King Kong, Triceratops or velociraptors in Jurassic Park. But despite the hype, Tyrannosaurus and the other tyrannosaurs are fascinating animals in their own right, and are...
Bloomsbury, 2016. — 304 p. Adored by children and adults alike, Tyrannosaurus is the most famous dinosaur in the world, one that pops up again and again in pop culture, often battling other beasts such as King Kong, Triceratops or velociraptors in Jurassic Park. But despite the hype, Tyrannosaurus and the other tyrannosaurs are fascinating animals in their own right, and are among...
Illustrations: Gabriel Ugueto. — Princeton University Press, 2024. — 248 p. How scientists are unravelling one of the most tantalizing questions in paleontology. Our understanding of dinosaur behavior has long been hampered by the inevitable lack of evidence from animals that went extinct more than sixty-five million years ago and whose daily behaviors are rarely reflected by...
Illustrations: Gabriel Ugueto. — Princeton University Press, 2024. — 248 p. How scientists are unravelling one of the most tantalizing questions in paleontology. Our understanding of dinosaur behavior has long been hampered by the inevitable lack of evidence from animals that went extinct more than sixty-five million years ago and whose daily behaviors are rarely reflected by...
Springer, 2018. — 360 p. Provides a unique and comprehensive overview of Korean paleontology and fossil sites. This is the first academic book about the dinosaurs, birds and pterosaurs of Korea, one of the richest and most exciting regions on earth for the study of vertebrate ichnology. Many ichnogenera appear indigenous to Korea, and based on present evidence there is nowhere...
Illustrated by Matthew Celeskey. — Indiana University Press, 2023. — 360 p. Comprehensive in detail and worldwide in scope, Chirotheres is the definitive compendium of what is known about the five-toed footprints of Triassic archosaurs, ancestors of the crocodiles. Sandstone slabs with extensive trackways have been known for almost two centuries and are highlights in museum...
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2011. — 368 p. Sauropods, those huge plant-eating dinosaurs, possessed bodies that seem to defy every natural law. What were these creatures like as living animals and how could they reach such uniquely gigantic sizes? A dedicated group of researchers in Germany in disciplines ranging from engineering and materials science to animal...
2nd Rev. Edition — Columbia University Press, 2000. — 360 p. The long and distinguished tradition of tracking dinosaurs and other extinct animals in Europe dates back to the 1830s. Yet this venerable tradition of scientific activity cannot compare in magnitude and scope with the unprecedented spate of discovery and documentation of the last few years. Now, following on the heels...
Indiana University Press, 2013. — 656 p. The Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument is the location of one of the best-known terrestrial records for the late Cretaceous. Prior fieldwork confirmed the richness of the area, but a major effort begun in the new century has documented over 2,000 new vertebrate fossil sites, provided new radiometric dates, and identified five...
Indiana University Press, 2013. — 656 p. The Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument is the location of one of the best-known terrestrial records for the late Cretaceous. Prior fieldwork confirmed the richness of the area, but a major effort begun in the new century has documented over 2,000 new vertebrate fossil sites, provided new radiometric dates, and identified five...
7th edition. — Columbia University Press. 2022. — 828 p. — ISBN 9780231556279. Geared toward a broad variety of students, Dinosaurs: The Textbook offers a concise and lucid presentation of the core biological and geological concepts of dinosaur science. Revised throughout to reflect recent fossil discoveries and the current scientific consensus, this seventh edition details the...
7th Edition. — Columbia University Press, 2022. — 440 p. Geared toward a broad variety of students, Dinosaurs: The Textbook offers a concise and lucid presentation of the core biological and geological concepts of dinosaur science. Revised throughout to reflect recent fossil discoveries and the current scientific consensus, this seventh edition details the evolution, phylogeny,...
6th Edition. — Columbia University Press. 2016. — 392 p. Geared towards a broad variety of students, Dinosaurs: The Textbook , sixth edition, is a concise and lucid presentation of the biological and geological concepts of dinosaur science. It clarifies the evolution, phylogeny, and classification of the various species while modeling the best approach for navigating new and...
6th Edition. — Columbia University Press. 2016. — 392 p. Geared towards a broad variety of students, Dinosaurs: The Textbook , sixth edition, is a concise and lucid presentation of the biological and geological concepts of dinosaur science. It clarifies the evolution, phylogeny, and classification of the various species while modeling the best approach for navigating new and...
American Philosophical Society, 1978. — 211 p.
Today and for much of the past 200 million years, A amphibians have been small, inconspicuous
forms. Although numerous in terms of species, frogs, salamanders, and apodans occupy a narrow range of habitats—tied by their anatomy and physiology to shallow fresh water or damp terrestrial environments. In the absence of competition...
This book covers the research processes that contributed to the BBC TV series "Walking with Dinosaurs". How was the information obtained, what suppositions have been made and how did this translate to the programme? Creatures featured include ceratopsians, iguanodontids and ankylosaurs.
Pegasus Books, 2014. — 368 p. Magnificent full dinosaur skeletons like Sue, the T. Rex specimen currently housed in Chicago’s Field Museum, have been invaluable to paleontologists in discovering how these reptilian behemoths moved and behaved many millions of years ago. Yet many dinosaur buffs may be surprised to learn just how little current information about these creatures is...
Pegasus Books, 2014. — 368 p. What if we woke up one morning all of the dinosaur bones in the world were gone? How would we know these iconic animals had a165-million year history on earth, and had adapted to all land-based environments from pole to pole? What clues would be left to discern not only their presence, but also to learn about their sex lives, raising of young, social...
Princeton University Press, 2019. — 289 p. — ISBN10: 0691180318, 13 978-0691180311. An illustrated record book of theropod facts and figures-from the biggest to the fastest to the smartest The theropod dinosaurs ruled the planet for millions of years, with species ranging from the mighty Tyrannosaurus rex to feathered raptors no bigger than turkeys. Dinosaur Facts and Figures...
Princeton University Press, 2020. — 272 p. — ISBN-10 0691190690, ISBN-13 978-0691190693. The sauropod dinosaurs roamed the planet for millions of years, with creatures ranging from the smallest of the sauropods, Magyarosaurus, to the huge Argentinosaurus. This illustrated book of records is an essential compendium of sauropod facts and figures - from the biggest and the oldest...
Geological Society Special Publication No.343, 2010. — 388 p. — ISBN: 1862393117. The discovery of dinosaurs and other large extinct saurians - a term under which the Victorians commonly lumped ichthyosaurs, plesiosaurs, pterosaurs and their kin - makes exciting reading and has caught the attention of palaeontologists, historians of science and the general public alike. The...
ABC-CLIO, 2014. — 502 p. This exhaustive, up-to-date book contains more than 2,000 entries about dinosaurs and dinosaur-related topics. It provides not only detailed information about their discovery, underlying science, and recent technologies and theories but also encompasses all of the facets of dinosaurs in society—for example, their use in consumer marketing and promotion,...
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023. — 368 p. This beautifully illustrated exploration of the diversity, anatomy, and evolution of dinosaur feeding adaptations is the first and only in-depth look at this crucial aspect of paleoecology. In An Illustrated Guide to Dinosaur Feeding Biology , experts Ali Nabavizadeh and David B. Weishampel bring dinosaurs to life on the page by...
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023. — 368 p. This beautifully illustrated exploration of the diversity, anatomy, and evolution of dinosaur feeding adaptations is the first and only in-depth look at this crucial aspect of paleoecology. In An Illustrated Guide to Dinosaur Feeding Biology , experts Ali Nabavizadeh and David B. Weishampel bring dinosaurs to life on the page by...
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023. — 368 p. This beautifully illustrated exploration of the diversity, anatomy, and evolution of dinosaur feeding adaptations is the first and only in-depth look at this crucial aspect of paleoecology. In An Illustrated Guide to Dinosaur Feeding Biology , experts Ali Nabavizadeh and David B. Weishampel bring dinosaurs to life on the page by...
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023. — 368 p. This beautifully illustrated exploration of the diversity, anatomy, and evolution of dinosaur feeding adaptations is the first and only in-depth look at this crucial aspect of paleoecology. In An Illustrated Guide to Dinosaur Feeding Biology , experts Ali Nabavizadeh and David B. Weishampel bring dinosaurs to life on the page by...
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023. — 368 p. This beautifully illustrated exploration of the diversity, anatomy, and evolution of dinosaur feeding adaptations is the first and only in-depth look at this crucial aspect of paleoecology. In An Illustrated Guide to Dinosaur Feeding Biology , experts Ali Nabavizadeh and David B. Weishampel bring dinosaurs to life on the page by...
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023. — 368 p. This beautifully illustrated exploration of the diversity, anatomy, and evolution of dinosaur feeding adaptations is the first and only in-depth look at this crucial aspect of paleoecology. In An Illustrated Guide to Dinosaur Feeding Biology , experts Ali Nabavizadeh and David B. Weishampel bring dinosaurs to life on the page by...
London: Geological Society Publishing, 2013. — 624 p. — ISBN13: 978-1862393615. Archosaurs, an important reptile group that includes todays crocodiles and birds, arose during the Triassic in the aftermath of the greatest mass extinction of all time. In the last 20 years, our understanding of the early evolution of the group has improved substantially with the discovery of new...
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019. — 256 p. — ISBN: 978-0-226-62272-9. Dinosaurs have held sway over our imaginations since the discovery of their bones first shocked the world in the nineteenth century. From the monstrous beasts stalking Jurassic Park to the curiosities of the natural history museum, dinosaurs are creatures that unite young and old in awestruck...
Pen and Sword Natural History, 2024. — 160 p. The dinosaurs are a source of endless fascination, and each new generation is inspired and enchanted by images of these wondrous and awe-inspiring creatures that dominated the Earth eons of time ago. The smallest was the size of a chicken; the largest on record, the titanosaur Argentinosaurus huinculensis, weighed about 95...
Oxford University Press, 2005. — 176 p. — (Very Short Introductions).
The popularity of dinosaurs seems never ending, as evidenced by the popularity of films such Jurassic Park and documentaries like Walking with Dinosaurs. But how much do these types of entertainment really tell us about recent scientific discoveries and the latest research into the world of the dinosaur?This...
Anchor books, 1996. — 390 p. To write about our continuing exploration of the Gobi Desert—an adventure that is still unfolding—is rather odd, as if my reflection on the serendipity behind various events and discoveries had anything to do with predicting the future of our efforts. Nonetheless, enough has been experienced to justify my recollection. I also felt the sheer panic of...
ITexLi, 2020. — 177 p. — ISBN 1838803572 9781838803575 1839625074 9781839625077. This book presents an overview of recent research in the field of Pleistocene Archaeology around the world. This book contains a total of insightful and stimulating chapters, in which human history during the time of the Pleistocene is reviewed and discussed. The main topics of this book are: (1)...
Foreword: Jacques A. Gauthier. — The Yale Peabody Museum, 2019. — 196 p. John H. Ostrom’s expeditions to the Bighorn Basin of Wyoming and Montana in the 1960s resulted in discoveries and research that would change long-held concepts in paleontology. This fiftieth-anniversary edition of his now well-known description of the type specimen of Deinonychus antirrhopus revisits the...
Springer, 2022. — XIV, 582 p. — ISBN 978-3-030-95958-6. Sauropodomorpha Huene 1932 is one of the most successful groups of dinosaurs, including the most abundant and diverse herbivorous forms with a worldwide record, extending from the late Triassic to the late Cretaceous. Sauropodomorphs comprise a diverse assemblage of early forms (traditionally called “prosauropods”) and the...
Indiana University Press, 2013. — 394 p. The opening of an exhibit focused on "Jane", a beautifully preserved tyrannosaur collected by the Burpee Museum of Natural History, was the occasion for an international symposium on tyrannosaur paleobiology. This volume, drawn from the symposium, includes studies of the tyrannosaurids Chingkankousaurus fragilis and "Sir William" and the...
Indiana University Press, 2013. — 394 p. The opening of an exhibit focused on "Jane", a beautifully preserved tyrannosaur collected by the Burpee Museum of Natural History, was the occasion for an international symposium on tyrannosaur paleobiology. This volume, drawn from the symposium, includes studies of the tyrannosaurids Chingkankousaurus fragilis and "Sir William" and the...
Princeton University Press, 2010. — 321 p. — ISBN: 069113720X. This lavishly illustrated volume is the first authoritative dinosaur book in the style of a field guide. World-renowned dinosaur illustrator and researcher Gregory Paul provides comprehensive visual and textual coverage of the great Mesozoic animals that gave rise to the living dinosaurs, the birds. Incorporating...
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1988. — ISBN: 0-671-61946-2 Классическая англоязычная научно-популярная книга о динозаврах, написанная знаменитым американским палеонтологом Грэгори С. Полом. На русский язык переведена не была.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016. — 362 p.
The best-selling Princeton Field Guide to Dinosaurs remains the must-have book for anyone who loves dinosaurs, from amateur enthusiasts to professional paleontologists. Now extensively revised and expanded, this dazzlingly illustrated large-format edition features some 100 new dinosaur species and 200 new and updated...
3rd Edition. — Princeton University Press, 2024. — 384 p. A fully updated and expanded edition of the acclaimed, bestselling dinosaur field guide. The bestselling Princeton Field Guide to Dinosaurs remains the must-have book for anyone who loves dinosaurs, from amateur enthusiasts to professional paleontologists. Now extensively revised and expanded, this dazzlingly illustrated...
Princeton University Press, 2022. — 209 р. — ISBN 978-0691193809. An authoritative illustrated guide to the mighty reptiles that dominated the seas of the Mesozoic for 185 million years New discoveries are revealing that many ancient oceangoing reptiles were energetic animals capable of inhabiting an array of watery habitats and climates, including polar winters. The Princeton...
Indiana University Press, 2015. — 376 p. During the Early Cretaceous, lakes, meandering streams, and flood plains covered the region where the current foothills of Rioja now exist. Today the area is known for its wine and for the dozens of sites where footprints and trackways of dinosaurs, amphibians, and even pterosaurs can be seen. The dinosaurs that lived here 120 million...
Indiana University Press, 2015. — 376 p. During the Early Cretaceous, lakes, meandering streams, and flood plains covered the region where the current foothills of Rioja now exist. Today the area is known for its wine and for the dozens of sites where footprints and trackways of dinosaurs, amphibians, and even pterosaurs can be seen. The dinosaurs that lived here 120 million years...
Columbia University Press, 2014. — 240 p. The discovery of stunning, feathered dinosaur fossils coming out of China since 2006 suggest that these creatures were much more bird-like than paleontologists previously imagined. Further evidence - bones, genetics, eggs, behavior, and more - has shown a seamless transition from fleet-footed carnivores to the ancestors of modern birds....
Columbia University Press, 2014. — 240 p. The discovery of stunning, feathered dinosaur fossils coming out of China since 2006 suggest that these creatures were much more bird-like than paleontologists previously imagined. Further evidence - bones, genetics, eggs, behavior, and more - has shown a seamless transition from fleet-footed carnivores to the ancestors of modern birds....
Columbia University Press, 2017. — 280 p. From the outback of Australia to the Gobi Desert of Mongolia and the savanna of Madagascar, the award-winning science writer and dinosaur enthusiast John Pickrell embarks on a world tour of new finds, meeting the fossil hunters who work at the frontier of discovery. He reveals the dwarf dinosaurs unearthed by an eccentric Transylvanian...
The Experiment, 2016. — 354 p. ISBN: 978-1615192748. A visual trove of more than 300 dinosaurs, with key anatomy, geology, history, and theory at a glance We live in a golden age of paleontological discovery-the perfect time to dig in to the spectacular world of dinosaurs. From Aardonyx, a lumbering beast that formed a link between two- and four-legged dinosaurs, to...
The Experiment, 2014. — 352 p. — ISBN10: 9781615192748, ASIN 1615192743. A Main Selection of Scientific American Book Club "Remarkably all-encompassing and superbly illustrated...a fascinating tome." Huffington Post A visual trove of more than 300 dinosaurs, with key anatomy, geology, history, and theory at a glance We live in a golden age of paleontological discovery-the...
2nd Edition. — The Experiment, 2019. — 372 p. — ISBN: 978-1-61519-212-0. Bigger and Better, Updated and Expanded We live in a golden age of paleontological discovery—on average, we find one new dinosaur species per week. The most fascinating among them take their place in this updated edition of Dinosaurs—The Grand Tour; from Aardonyx, a lumbering beast that formed a link...
Harvard University Press, 2017. — 368 p.
One animal left India in 1515, caged in the hold of a Portuguese ship, and sailed around Africa to Lisbon—the first of its species to see Europe for more than a thousand years. The other crossed the Atlantic from South America to Madrid in 1789, its huge fossilized bones packed in crates, its species unknown. How did Europeans three...
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014. — 302 p. In this riveting nonfiction book, Alexander Popoff explains how the asteroid and volcano theories, which are prevalent among scholars, are not viable because they can’t explain many specifics of the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) extinction: the presence of extraterrestrial amino acids in the soils for tens of thousands...
Smithsonian Books, 2016. — 192 p. More than a hundred years ago, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote a novel called The Lost World with the exciting premise that dinosaurs and other prehistoric beasts still ruled in South America. Little did Conan Doyle know, there were terrifying monsters in South America - they just happened to be extinct. In fact, South America has an incredible...
Smithsonian Books, 2016. — 192 p. More than a hundred years ago, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote a novel called The Lost World with the exciting premise that dinosaurs and other prehistoric beasts still ruled in South America. Little did Conan Doyle know, there were terrifying monsters in South America - they just happened to be extinct. In fact, South America has an incredible...
Britannica Educational Publishing, 2010. — 285 p. — ISBN: 1615301038. It was a time of huge "thunder lizards" roaming steamy fern jungles; of "mammal-reptiles" walking the land of Laurasia; of continental movements, mountain building, and massive volcanoes; and a time of the most horrific, earth-shattering extinctions that ever occurred on this planet. It was the middle times...
2nd Edition — Indiana University Press, 2020. — 332 p. Dinosaurs of Darkness opens a doorway to a fascinating former world, between 100 million and 120 million years ago, when Australia was far south of its present location and joined to Antarctica. Dinosaurs lived in this polar region. How were the polar dinosaurs discovered? What do we now know about them? Thomas H. Rich and...
2nd Edition — Indiana University Press, 2020. — 332 p. Dinosaurs of Darkness opens a doorway to a fascinating former world, between 100 million and 120 million years ago, when Australia was far south of its present location and joined to Antarctica. Dinosaurs lived in this polar region. How were the polar dinosaurs discovered? What do we now know about them? Thomas H. Rich and...
Indiana University Press, 2019. — 256 p. Told in rich detail and with gorgeous color recreations, this is the story of marine life in the age before the dinosaurs. During the Middle Triassic Period (247–237 million years ago), the mountain of Monte San Giorgio in Switzerland was a tropical lagoon. Today, it is a UNESCO World Heritage Site because it boasts an astonishing fossil...
Indiana University Press, 2014. — 232 p. This overview of dinosaur discoveries in Mexico synthesizes current information about the geography and environment of the region during the Mesozoic when it was the western margin of the ancient continent of Pangea. The book summarizes research on various groups, including turtles, lepidosauromorphs, plesiosaurs, crocodyliforms,...
University of California Press, 2005. - 358 p. ISBN13: 978-0520246232. Sauropod dinosaurs were the largest animals ever to walk the earth, and they represent a substantial portion of vertebrate biomass and biodiversity during the Mesozoic Era. The story of sauropod evolution is told in an extensive fossil record of skeletons and footprints that span the globe and 150 million...
Indiana University Press, 2010. — 624 p. Easily distinguished by the horns and frills on their skulls, ceratopsians were one of the most successful of all dinosaurs. This volume presents a broad range of cutting-edge research on the functional biology, behavior, systematics, paleoecology, and paleogeography of the horned dinosaurs, and includes descriptions of newly identified...
University of California Press, 2009. — 352 p. This captivating book, laced with evocative anecdotes from the field, gives the first holistic, up-to-date overview of dinosaurs and their world for a wide audience of readers. Situating these fascinating animals in a broad ecological and evolutionary context, leading dinosaur expert Scott D. Sampson fills us in on the exhilarating...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2014. — 276 p. This book focuses on the first vertebrates to conquer land and their long journey to become fully independent from the water. It traces the origin of tetrapod features and tries to explain how and why they transformed into organs that permit life on land. Although the major frame of the topic lies in the past 370 million years and necessarily deals...
CRC Press, 2020. — 562 p. This textbook introduces research on dinosaurs by describing the science behind how we know what we know about dinosaurs. A wide range of topics is covered, from fossils and taphonomy to dinosaur physiology, evolution, and extinction. In addition, sedimentology, paleo-tectonics, and non-dinosaurian Mesozoic life are discussed. There is a special...
CRC Press, 2020. — 562 p. This textbook introduces research on dinosaurs by describing the science behind how we know what we know about dinosaurs. A wide range of topics is covered, from fossils and taphonomy to dinosaur physiology, evolution, and extinction. In addition, sedimentology, paleo-tectonics, and non-dinosaurian Mesozoic life are discussed. There is a special...
CRC Press, 2020. — 562 p. This textbook introduces research on dinosaurs by describing the science behind how we know what we know about dinosaurs. A wide range of topics is covered, from fossils and taphonomy to dinosaur physiology, evolution, and extinction. In addition, sedimentology, paleo-tectonics, and non-dinosaurian Mesozoic life are discussed. There is a special...
CRC Press, 2020. — 562 p. This textbook introduces research on dinosaurs by describing the science behind how we know what we know about dinosaurs. A wide range of topics is covered, from fossils and taphonomy to dinosaur physiology, evolution, and extinction. In addition, sedimentology, paleo-tectonics, and non-dinosaurian Mesozoic life are discussed. There is a special...
CRC Press, 2020. — 562 p. This textbook introduces research on dinosaurs by describing the science behind how we know what we know about dinosaurs. A wide range of topics is covered, from fossils and taphonomy to dinosaur physiology, evolution, and extinction. In addition, sedimentology, paleo-tectonics, and non-dinosaurian Mesozoic life are discussed. There is a special...
Scientific American, 2014. — 168 p. Terrible lizards. That’s what the word “dinosaurs” means. Yet dinosaurs are not true lizards, and they are not necessarily terrible either. In fact, paleontologists have overturned one misconception after another, and in this eBook, “Dinosaurs!”, we look at what the latest research tells us and what we still have to learn about these...
Falcon Guides, 2015. — 224 p. A field guide to 60 dinosaurs and prehistoric animals that once lived in what is now North America. Featuring stunning illustrations of each animal by world-famous artist Sergey Krosovskiy and based on the latest paleontogical research, this book provides information about the where and when the animals lived, what they ate, and more. Bob Strauss...
Indiana University Press, 2005. — 513 p. — (Life of the Past). — ISBN10: 0253345421. — ISBN13: 978-0253345424. The large, quadrupedal herbivores known as sauropods were widespread around the planet from the Jurassic to the end of the Cretaceous. With the longest necks and tails of all of the dinosaurs, some sauropods were 40 meters in length and weighed upwards of 100,000...
Palaeontologia Polonica 66, 2011. — 211 p. — ISSN: 0078−8562 In the marine Přidolian to early Lochkovian environments of Podolia, vertebrates were represented almost exclusively by thelodonts and acanthodians. Starting from the mid Lochkovian (Chortkiv Formation), the heterostracans increased their abundance and diversity. Diverse macroscopic remains of the cyathaspidid...
The Crowood Press, 2022. — 112 p. Dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals pose vast problems for the artist. How do you go about recreating the anatomy and behavior of a creature we've never seen? How can we restore landscapes long lost to time? And where does the boundary between paleontology - the science of understanding fossils - and artistic license lie? In this...
Indiana University Press, 2023. — 424 p. Modern crocodylians - crocodiles, alligators, caiman (Central and South America), and gharials (India) - have evolved over 250 million years from a fully terrestrial, bipedal ancestor. Along with birds, crocodylians are the only living members of Archosauria, the group including nonavian dinosaurs. Ruling Reptiles features contributions...
М.: Геос, 2000. — 126 с. — (Труды Палеонтологического института. Том 272). — ISBN10: 5-89118-146-0. По данным сборов Совместной Монголo-Российской палеонтологической экспедиции в пустыне Гоби (Монголия) описан крупный инфраотряд ископаемых ящериц — Macrocephalosauria. Новая группа рассматривается в качестве составной части таксона Chamaeleomorpha (Iguania) в рамках...
М.: РАН, 2022. — 452 с. Книга содержит новые сведения по морфологии, систематике, стратиграфическому и географическому распространению ископаемых ящериц (отряд Lacertilia) Центральной Азии (Монголия и прилежащие страны). Столь широкий охват данных в исследованиях по истории группы для данной территории ранее не предпринимался. При обсуждении эволюции ящериц учтена такая сложная...
Монография. — Прага: Артия, 1965. — 116 с. Характерными представителями позвоночных животных, обитавших в мезозойских морях, были всевозможные ящеры своеобразного вида, различных размеров и с особым, присущим лишь им, образом жизни. С исчезновением мезозойских морей исчезли также навсегда и эти ящеры, не оставив после себя потомков. О том, что ящеры в этих морях действительно...
М.: Наука, 1983. — 120 с. В книге рассматриваются вопросы сравнительной анатомии, систематики, эволюции, родственных связей, зоогеографии, экологии, стратиграфического распространения меловых хищных динозавров Монголии. Книга рассчитана на палеонтологов, зоологов, геологов-стратиграфов, палеобиогеографов.
М.: Наука, 1983. — 120 с. В книге рассматриваются вопросы сравнительной анатомии, систематики, эволюции, родственных связей, зоогеографии, экологии, стратиграфического распространения меловых хищных динозавров Монголии. Книга рассчитана на палеонтологов, зоологов, геологов-стратиграфов, палеобиогеографов.
М.: Фитон XXI, 2018. — 280 с.: ил. Пермский период - время господства терапсид, в том числе звероящеров, которые являются предками млекопитающих, а значит и нас с вами! Это единственный геологический период, выделенный в России, в Пермской губернии. Хотя динозавры в нашей стране популярны, их в России найдено мало, а вот про пермскую жизнь мало кто знает подробно, хотя пермских...
М.: Фитон XXI, 2018. — 280 с.: ил. Пермский период - время господства терапсид, в том числе звероящеров, которые являются предками млекопитающих, а значит и нас с вами! Это единственный геологический период, выделенный в России, в Пермской губернии. Хотя динозавры в нашей стране популярны, их в России найдено мало, а вот про пермскую жизнь мало кто знает подробно, хотя пермских...
М.: Наука, 1989. — 102 с.
В книге приводится система раннетриасовых амфибий — лабиринтодонтов бентозухид. Описывается краниальная морфология и анализируются эволюционные тенденции группы. Разработано представление об "онтогенетическом архетипе" черепа лабиринтодонтов, отражающем типичную последовательность стадий формирования покровных структур. Для палеонтологов и зоологов.
М.: Наука, 1988. — 108 с.
Первая систематическая сводка по двум группам водных диапсид: крокодилам и хампсозаврам из мезозоя и кайнозоя Монголии и СССР.
Описываются 32 вида, 23 рода, принадлежащих 13 семействам. Из них 28 видов, 12 родов и 2 семейства установлены автором.
Подробно рассматриваются отдельные черты краниальной морфологии метамезозухий.
Приводятся новые данные...
М.: Наука, 1988. - 108 с.
Первая систематическая сводка по двум группам водных диапсид: крокодилам и хампсозаврам из мезозоя и кайнозоя Монголии и СССР.
Описываются 32 вида, 23 рода, принадлежащих 13 семействам. Из них 28 видов, 12 родов и 2 семейства установлены автором.
Подробно рассматриваются отдельные черты краниальной морфологии метамезозухий.
Приводятся новые данные по...
М.: Наука, 1987. – 160 с. – (Труды Палеонтологического института. Т. 223).
Обосновывается необходимость выделения самостоятельной филогенетической ветви тетрапод — парарептилий как особого класса четвероногих. Группа прошла длительный путь морфофизиологической эволюции от примитивных амфибиотических пермо-карбоновых сеймуриаморфов – дискоэаврисцид до современных рептилий –...
М.: Наука, 1987. — 93 с.
В книге рассматриваются остеология и сравнительная морфология скелета одного из тероподных динозавров с реконструкцией на этой основе внешнего вида и образа жизни. Приводятся сведения о возможных нескелетных образованиях, обычно не сохраняющихся в ископаемом состоянии. Анализируется распространение птичьих признаков среди теропод, указывающих на...
Хабаровск: 1997. – 54 с.
В монографии приведена история изучения местонахождений позднемеловых рептилий Приамурья, дано их описание и списки фауны. Большинство костных остатков в приамурских местонахождениях принадлежит гадрозаврам, реже встречаются остатки других динозавров, крокодилов и черепах. Рассмотрены условия формирования позднемеловой экосистемы и особенности...
Хабаровск: Амурский научный центр Дальневосточного отделения РАН, 1997. — 54 с. В монографии приведена история изучения местонахождений позднемеловых рептилий Приамурья, дано их описание и списки фауны. Большинство костных остатков в приамурских местонахождениях принадлежит гадрозаврам, реже встречаются остатки других динозавров, крокодилов и черепах. Рассмотрены условия...
Москва, 2011. — 30 с. — ISBN 978-5-903717-11-8. Книга рассказывает про палеонтологические раскопки возле деревни Морозница в Архангельском крае. Здесь были найдены первые в нашем полушарии остатки ящеров казеид, живших в пермском периоде. На их примере показано, как ученые реконструируют среду обитания и образ жизни древних животных. Книга посвящена палеонтологу Владимиру...
М.: Альпина нон-фикшн, 2022. — 280 с. Более ста лет Россия была гигантским белым пятном в истории динозавров. Поиску и изучению остатков русских динозавров мешало многое: нехватка специалистов, геологическая история региона, удаленность перспективных местонахождений. Находки динозавров ограничивались несколькими костями, и только в последние двадцать-тридцать лет ситуация резко...
Санкт-Петербургский университет, Санкт-Петербург, 1995 г., 134 стр.
Данная работа касается динозавров территории Северной Евразии в границах бывшего СССР. Остатки и отпечатки следов этих животных известны из Узбекистана, Казахстана, Таджикистана, Кыргызстана, Туркменистана. России. Армении и Грузии.
Существующие обзоры местонахождений остатков динозавров, найденных на территории...
М.: Российская академия наук, 2018. — 358 с. — (Труды палеонтологического института. Выпуск 296). — ISBN: 978-5-906906-71-7. Работа представляет собой первое обобщающее исследование по фауне раннетриасовых амфибий Восточной Европы, где суммируются и ревизуются современные данные по ее таксономическому разнообразию, происхождению и путям диверсификации доминирующих групп, а...
М.: Наука, 1995. — 141 с. — (Труды Палеонтологического института. Выпуск 263). — ISBN: 5-02-004761-9. В работе даётся первая систематическая сводка по примитивным архозаврам — текодонтам из перми и триаса Восточной Европы. Описываются 19 родов и 22 вида, принадлежащие 4 семействам. Из них 9 родов и 9 видов установлены автором, в том числе первые эупаркерииды из Восточной Европы...
М.: Геос, 2006. — 233 с. — (Труды Палеонтологического института. Выпуск 290).
Предлагаемая вниманию читателя монография основана на критическом анализе палеонтологических данных по филогении рептилий.
Мы, конечно, не ставили невыполнимой цели — дать законченный анализ и правильную трактовку филогенетических отношений между всеми главными группами рептилий. О законченных же...
М.: ГЕОС, 2009. — 377 с.: ил. Архозавры и тероморфы - важнейшие в филогенетическом отношении подклассы рептилий. От них происходят оба высших класса наземных позвоночных: птицы от архозавров и млекопитающие от тероморф. В книге анализируются родственные связи архозавров и зверообразных с другими рептилиями, а также рассматриваются некоторые проблемы их родства с птицами и...
Учебное пособие. — Иркутск: Иркутский университет, 1999. — 132 с.
Учебное пособие по курсу «Палеонтология», разделы «Пресмыкающиеся» и «Птицы» предназначено для студентов I - III курсов геологического факультета дневного и заочного отделений и магистров специальностей «Палеонтология» и «Историческая и региональная геология». Рассматривается морфология всех подклассов...
М.: Наука, 1987. — 80 с.
Работа посвящена панцирным динозаврам (анкилозаврам) — одной из наиболее аберрантных групп динозавров, распространенных в меловом периоде практически по всему земному шару. Дан детальный сравнительно-морфологический анализ черепа панцирных динозавров, их сопоставление с другими динозаврами и рептилиями вообще. Анализируются данные, подтверждающие и...
Кишинев: Штиинца, 1989. — 94 с.
Книга посвящена описанию ископаемых неогеновых черепах Молдавии. Обсуждается место черепах в фаунистических комплексах. Приводится обзор местонахождений ископаемых черепах Молдавии.
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Тбилиси: Мецниереба, 1973. — 101 с.
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