Overview
- Reconstructs fossils of dinosaurs and other extinct reptiles as living animals and elucidates their evolution and behaviour
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Our knowledge of extinct animals depends almost entirely upon the study of fossils. This richly illustrated book clothes the skeletons of dinosaurs and other Mesozoic reptiles with flesh, and shows how these fascinating animals evolved and probably lived. Expert author John L. Cloudsley-Thompson provides an interesting synthesis of current views on their ecology, physiology and behaviour, and outlines the various hypotheses that have been proposed to explain their extinction. Numerous beautiful drawings of the animals and their environment illustrate this exciting monograph.
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"... This book offers a very reader-friendly introduction to the surprising detail that can be recovered from the fossil record. Zoologist John Cloudsley-Thompson outlines the reptilian lifesyles associated with marine, aerial and terrestrial environments, and looks at the different fossil groups that occupied them. .... his biological viewpoint and language will be welcomed by many. " (BBC Wildlife Magazine)
"This book offers a very reader-friendly introduction to the surprising detail that can be recovered from the fossil record. … The author, an expert in living amphibians and reptiles … . his biological viewpoint and language will be welcomed by many." (Douglas Palmer, BBC Wildlife Magazine, Vol. 23 (6), June, 2005)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Ecology and Behaviour of Mesozoic Reptiles
Authors: John L. Cloudsley-Thompson
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/b137828
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2005
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-22421-1Published: 19 January 2005
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-06124-0Published: 13 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-26571-9Published: 11 December 2005
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 219
Number of Illustrations: 129 b/w illustrations
Topics: Zoology, Vertebrates, Paleontology, Animal Ecology, Evolutionary Biology, Behavioral Sciences