Dinosaurs (book)

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

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]

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

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↑ "Dinosaurs: The Most Complete, Up-to-Date Encyclopedia for Dinosaur Lovers of All Ages". Strand Books.

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