Princeton Field Guides: The Princeton Field Guide to Dinosaurs
Princeton Field Guides: The Princeton Field Guide to Dinosaurs
Editor/Author
Paul, Gregory S.
Publication Year: 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Price: Core Collection Only

ISBN: 978-0-69-116766-4
Category: Animals & Veterinary Medicine
Image Count:
614
Book Status: Available
Table of Contents
The best-selling Princeton Field Guide to Dinosaurs remains the must-have book for anyone who loves dinosaurs, from amateur enthusiasts to professional paleontologists. Paul's extensively revised introduction delves into dinosaur history and biology, the extinction of non-avian dinosaurs, the origin of birds, and the history of dinosaur paleontology, as well as giving a taste of what it might be like to travel back in time to the era when dinosaurs roamed the earth.
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Table of Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- INTRODUCTION
- Preface
- HISTORY OF DISCOVERY AND RESEARCH
- WHAT IS A DINOSAUR?
- DATING DINOSAURS
- THE EVOLUTION OF DINOSAURS AND THEIR WORLD
- EXTINCTION
- AFTER THE AGE OF DINOSAURS
- BIOLOGY
- General Anatomy
- Skin, Feathers, and Color
- Respiration and Circulation
- Digestive Tracts
- Senses
- Vocalization
- Disease and Pathologies
- BEHAVIOR
- Brains, Nerves, and Intelligenc
- Social Activities
- Reproduction
- GROWTH
- ENERGETICS
- GIGANTISM
- MESOZOIC OXYGEN
- THE EVOLUTION—AND LOSS — OF AVIAN FLIGHT
- DINOSAUR SAFARI
- IF DINOSAURS HAD SURVIVED
- DINOSAUR CONSERVATION
- WHERE DINOSAURS ARE FOUND
- USING THE GROUP AND SPECIES DESCRIPTIONS
- Group and Species Accounts
- DINOSAURS
- THEROPODS
- BASO-THEROPODS
- AVEPODS
- BASO-AVEPODS
- AVEROSTRANS
- TETANURANS
- AVETHEROPODS
- MANIRAPTORS
- PARAVIANS
- SAUROPODOMORPHS
- PROSAUROPODS
- SAUROPODS
- ORNITHISCHIANS
- BASO-ORNITHISCHIANS
- GENASAURS
- ADDITIONAL READING