Frontmatter

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. CONTENTS 5
3. PREFACE 6
4. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 6
5. INTRODUCTION
6. HISTORY OF DISCOVERY AND RESEARCH 9
7. WHAT IS A DINOSAUR? 14
8. DATING DINOSAURS 15
9. THE EVOLUTION OF DINOSAURS AND THEIR WORLD 16
10. EXTINCTION 26
11. AFTER THE AGE OF DINOSAURS 28
12. BIOLOG 28
13. BEHAVIOR 47
14. GROWTH 56
15. ENERGETICS 57
16. GIGANTISM 61
17. MESOZOIC OXYGEN 64
18. THE EVOLUTION—AND LOSS—OF AVIAN FLIGHT 64
19. DINOSAUR SAFARI 66
20. IF DINOSAURS HAD SURVIVED 67
21. DINOSAUR CONSERVATION 68
22. WHERE DINOSAURS ARE FOUND 69
23. USING THE GROUP AND SPECIES DESCRIPTIONS 76
24. GROUP AND SPECIES ACCOUNTS
25. DINOSAURS 83
26. BASAL DINOSAURS 83
27. THEROPODS 86
28. SAUROPODOMORPHS 202
29. ORNITHISCHIANS 261
30. ADDITIONAL READING 374
31. INDEX TO DINOSAUR TAXA 375
32. INDEX TO FORMATIONS 382