CONTENTS IN BRIEF

List of Boxed Readings

Preface

 

  1    INTRODUCTION

  2    EVOLUTION, PHYLOGENY, AND CLASSIFICATION

  3    FOSSILS, SEDIMENTARY ENVIRONMENTS, AND GEOLOGIC TIME

  4    THE ORIGIN OF DINOSAURS

  5    THEROPODS

  6    SAUROPODOMORPHS

  7    ORNITHOPODS

  8    STEGOSAURS AND ANKYLOSAURS

  9    CERATOPSIANS AND PACHYCEPHALOSAURS

10    THE DINOSAURIAN WORLD

11    DINOSAUR HUNTERS

12    DINOSAUR TRACE FOSSILS

13    DINOSAUR BIOLOGY AND BEHAVIOR

14    HOT-BLOODED DINOSAURS?

15    DINOSAURS AND THE ORIGIN OF BIRDS

16    THE EXTINCTION OF DINOSAURS

17    DINOSAURS IN THE PUBLIC EYE

 

Appendix: A Primer of Dinosaur Anatomy

Glossary

A Dinosaur Dictionary

Index