Copyright, Smithsonian Dinosaurs and Other Amazing Creatures from Deep Time

Published on the occasion of the opening of the David H. Koch Hall of Fossils—Deep Time at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History

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National Museum of Natural History

Director: Kirk R. Johnson.

Book development team and scientific review: Anna K. Behrensmeyer, Matthew T. Carrano, Ashley Jenson, Kirk R. Johnson, Kristen Quarles, Siobhan Starrs, Hans Sues, Scott L. Wing.

Based on exhibition content created by the core team for the David H. Koch Hall of Fossils—Deep Time: Anna K. Behrensmeyer, Kara Blond, Amy Bolton, Matthew T. Carrano, Laura Donnelly-Smith, Elizabeth Jones, Michael Lawrence, Juliana Olsson, Angela Roberts Reeder, Meg Rivers, Siobhan Starrs, Scott L. Wing, Reich+Petch Design International, Richard Lewis Media Group.

Specimens prepared and mounted by Research Casting International, NMNH Vertebrate Paleontology Lab, NMNH Paleobiology Collections Management Team.

Specimen photography: Smithsonian Institution, with contributions from James Di Loreto, Lucia R. M. Martino, Fred Cochard, Kate D. Sherwood, Chip Clark, Donald E. Hurlbert, John Steiner, Mike Gaudaur, Gary Mulcahey.

Illustrations: all by Julius Csotonyi except 4: Peter Sawyer

Published by Smithsonian Books

Director: Carolyn Gleason

Creative director: Jody Billert

Senior editor: Christina Wiginton

Editor: Laura Harger

Editorial assistant: Jaime Schwender

Text: Blake Edgar, based on David H. Koch Hall of Fossils—Deep Time exhibition materials

Book design: Joan Sommers, Glue + Paper Workshop

Title page: Two Dimetrodon (rear) and Secodontosaurus by a Permian stream.

This page: Flocks of Pteranodon (top) and Icthyornis fly in a Cretaceous sky.

Image credits (top: t; bottom: b; left: l; right: r; center: c): 1tr: courtesy of the University of Cambridge and the Natural History Museum of Denmark, cast of MGUH 29019; 2c: cast of HMV 8246; 3tl: with thanks to Iziko Museums of South Africa; 4tl: cast of AMNH 2102; 5br: donated by Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart, cast of SMNS 1756; 6bl: model by April Neander, University of Chicago; 7t: cast of BSP 1967 I 324; 8c: cast; 9tl: courtesy Brigham Young University’s Museum of Paleontology, cast of BYU 13019; 10bl: cast; 11r: cast; 12tc: cast of HMN 1880/81; 13bc: cast; 14t: composite of ROM 1930 and another specimen; 15cl: cast of UALVP 2; 16c: cast of FPDM-V6233; 17r: cast of BMRP 2008.4.1; 18l: cast of AMNH 6169; 19b: cast of PU 18150; 20t: cast.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Edgar, Blake, author. | Johnson, Kirk R. | National Museum of Natural History (U.S.)

Title: Smithsonian Dinosaurs and Other Amazing Creatures from Deep Time / National Museum of Natural History ; Blake Edgar

Description: Washington, DC : Smithsonian Books, [2019] |

Identifiers: LCCN 2018039976 (print) | LCCN 2018041221 (ebook) | ISBN 9781588346629 (eBook) | ISBN 9781588346483 (pbk.)

Subjects: LCSH: Paleontology—Juvenile literature. | Fossils—Juvenile literature. | Dinosaurs—Juvenile literature. | Dinosaurs—Evolution—Juvenile literature. | Evolution (Biology)—Juvenile literature

Classification: LCC QE714.5 (ebook) | LCC QE714.5 .E34 2019 (print) | DDC 560—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/

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