CONTENTS

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. CONTENTS 5
3. PREFACE 6
4. INTRODUCTION
5. HISTORY OF DISCOVERY AND RESEARCH 7
6. WHAT IS A PTEROSAUR? 10
7. DATING PTEROSAURS 15
8. EVOLUTION OF PTEROSAURS AND THEIR WORLD 16
9. EXTINCTION 27
10. AFTER THE AGE OF PTEROSAURS 28
11. BIOLOGY 29
12. BEHAVIOR 72
13. GROWTH 76
14. ENERGETICS 77
15. GIGANTISM 79
16. MESOZOIC OXYGEN 82
17. PTEROSAUR SAFARI 83
18. IF PTEROSAURS SURVIVED 84
19. PTEROSAUR CONSERVATION, KEEPING, AND CONSUMPTION 84
20. WHERE PTEROSAURS ARE FOUND 85
21. PTEROSAUR COUNT 86
22. USING THE GROUP AND SPECIES DESCRIPTIONS 91
23. Group and Species Accounts
24. PTEROSAURS 97
25. RHAMPHORHYNCHOIDS 98
26. PTERODACTYLOIDS 123
27. REFERENCES 177
28. INDEX 181