TY  - BOOK
AU  - Brett-Surman,M.K.
AU  - Holtz,Thomas R.
AU  - Farlow,James O.
TI  - Complete dinosaur
T2  - Life of the past
SN  - 9780253357014 (cl : alk. paper)
U1  - 567.9 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Bloomington, Ind.
PB  - Indiana University Press
KW  - Dinosaurs
N1  - Includes index; Part 1: The Discovery of Donosaurs
1. Dinosaurs : the earliest discoveries / David A.E. Spalding and William A.S. Sarjeant --
2. Politics and paleontology : Richard Owen and the invention of dinosaurs / Hugh S. Torrens --
3. European dinosaur hunters of the 19th and 20th centuries / Hans-Dieter Sues --
4. North American dinosaur hunters / Edwin H. Colbert, David D. Gillette, and Ralph E. Molnar --
5. The search for dinosaurs in Asia / Corwin Sullivan, David W.E. Hone, and Xing Xu --
6. Dinosaur hunters of the southern continents / Thomas R. Holtz Jr. --

Part 2: The Study of Dinosaurs
7. Hunting for dinosaur bones / David D. Gillette --
8. The osteology of the dinosaurs / Thomas R. Holtz Jr. and M.K. Brett-Surman --
9. Reconstructing the musculature of dinosaurs / David W. Dilkes ... [et al.] --
10. Dinosaur paleoneurology / Emily Buchholtz --
11. The taxonomy and systematics of the dinosaurs / Thomas R. Holtz Jr. and M.K. Brett-Surman --
12. Dinosaurs and geologic time / James I. Kirkland and James O. Farlow --
13. Technology and the study of dinosaurs / Ralph E. Chapman ... [et al.] --
14. Claws, scales, beaks, and feathers : molecular traces in the fossil record / Mary Higby Schweitzer and Mark Marshall --
15. Dinosaurs as museum exhibits / Kenneth Carpenter --
16. Restoring dinosaurs as living animals / Douglas Henderson --

Part 3: The Clades of Dinosaurs
17. Evolution of the archosaurs / J. Michael Parrish --
18. Origin and early evolution of dinosaurs / Michael J. Benton --
19. Theropods / Thomas R. Holtz Jr. --
20. Birds / Darren Naish --
21. Basal Sauropodomorpha : the "prosauropods" / Adam M. Yates --
22. Sauropoda / Jeffrey A. Wilson and Kristina Curry Rogers --
23. Stegosaurs / Peter M. Galton --
24. Ankylosaurs / Kenneth Carpenter --
25. Marginocephalia / Peter Makovicky --
26. Ornithopods / Richard J. Butler and Paul M. Barrett --

Part 4: Paleobiology of the Dinosaurs
27. Land plants as a source of food and environment in the age of dinosaurs / Bruce H. Tiffney --
28. What did dinosaurs eat : coprolites and other direct evidence of dinosaur diets / Karen Chin --
29. Reproductive biology of dinosaurs / Terry D. Jones and Nicholas R. Geist --
30. Dinosaur eggs / Darla K. Zelenitsky, John R. Horner, and François Therrien --
31. How dinosaurs grew / R.E.H. Reid (with introductory note by Gregory M. Erickson) --
32. Engineering a dinosaur / Donald Henderson --
33. Disease in dinosaurs / Elizabeth Rega --
34. The scientific study of dinosaur footprints / James O. Farlow ... [et al.] --
35. The role of heterochrony in dinosaur evolution / Kenneth J. McNamara and John A. Long --
36. Metabolic physiology of dinosaurs and early birds / John A. Ruben ... [et al.] --
37. Evidence for avian-mammalian aerobic capacity and thermoregulation in Mesozoic dinosaurs / Gregory S. Paul --
38. "Intermediate" dinosaurs : the case updated / R.E.H. Reid --

Part 5: Dinosaur Evolution in the Mesozoic
39. Principles of paleobiogeography in the Mesozoic / Ralph E. Molnar --
40. Non-dinosaurian vertebrates / Nicholas C. Fraser --
41. Early Mesozoic continental tetrapods and faunal changes / Hans-Dieter Sues --
42. Dinosaurian faunas of the later Mesozoic / Matthew T. Carrano --
43. Dinosaur extinction : past and present perspectives / J. David Archibald --
44. Life after death : dinosaur fossils in human hands / Daniel J. Chure --
45. Dinosaurs and evolutionary theory / Kevin Padian and Elizabeth K. Burton
N2  - The most thorough and up -to -date survey of dinosaurs available
ER  -