DINOSAURS
Subtitle: THEIR DISCOVERY AND THEIR WORLD
Edition: FOURTH PRINTING
Publisher: E.P. DUTTON & CO., INC.
Published: 1964
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 300
Copyright date: 1961
First sentence: One hundred million years ago the continents were inhabited by numerous and varied reptiles which today we call dinosaurs.
Table of contents: label: 1.
title: Some necessary preliminairies
pagenum: 1; label: THERE WERE DINOSAUS
title: 1; label: GEOLOGIC TIME
title: 2; label: THE GEOLOGIC CALENDAR
title: 4; label: THE AGE OF DINOSAURS
title: 5; label: ROCKS AND FOSSILS
title: 6; label: THE TREE OF LIFE
title: 9; label: VERTEBRATES
title: 10; label: REPTILES
title: 13; label: DINOSAURS
title: 15; label: 2.
title: Dinosaurs and Victorians
pagenum: 19; label: DINOSAURS ARE DISCOVERED
title: 19; label: DINOSAURIA
title: 22; label: OWEN, HAWKINS AND Iguanodon
title: 23; label: LEIDY, HAWKINS AND Hadrosaurus
title: 25; label: DINOSAUR TRACKS IN THE CONNECTICUT VALLEY
title: 28; label: PROFESSOR MARSH AND PROFESSOR COPE
title: 29; label: 3.
title: The twentieth century
pagenum: 35; label: THE LEGACY OF THE INNOVATORS
title: 35; label: INTO THE FIELD FOR DINOSAURS
title: 38; label: IN THE LABORATORY
title: 41; label: RESEARCH AND PUBLICATION
title: 44; label: IN THE MUSEUM HALL
title: 46; label: MEN AND MUSEUMS
title: 48; label: 4.
title: Advent of the dinosaurs
pagenum: 53; label: DINOSAUR ANCESTORS
title: 53; label: Coelophysis, AN EARLY COELUROSAURIAN DINOSAUR
title: 61; label: THE FIRST CARNOSAURS
title: 67; label: PROSAUROPODS, TRIASSIC GIANTS
title: 70; label: A SUMMING UP
title: 71; label: 5.
title: Meat-eating dinosaurs
pagenum: 73; label: THE THREEFOLD DEVELOPMENT OF THEROPOD DINOSAURS
title: 73; label: THE PERSISTENTLY PRIMITIVE COELUROSAURS
title: 75; label: THE OSTRICH DINOSAURS
title: 77; label: GIANT HUNTERS
title: 79; label: 6.
title: Greatest of the giants
pagenum: 85; label: A BIT OF HISTORY
title: 85; label: ON BEING A GIANT
title: 91; label: THE VARIETY OF THE SAUROPODS
title: 104; label: 7.
title: Iguanodonts and such
pagenum: 107; label: ANCESTRAL ORNITHISCHIANS
title: 107; label: Iguanodon
title: 114; label: THE DOME-HEADED DINOSAURS
title: 115; label: 8.
title: Duck-billed dinosaurs
pagenum: 117; label: Hadrosaurus AND Claosaurus
title: 117; label: THE HADROSAURIAN PATTERN
title: 119; label: THE FLAT-HEADED HADOSAURS
title: 127; label: THE CRESTED HADROSAURS
title: 129; label: SIGHT AND HEARING
title: 136; label: THE SUM OF THE EVIDENCE
title: 139; label: 9.
title: Plated dinosaurs
pagenum: 141; label: THE OLDEST ORNITHISCHIAN
title: 141; label: MORE HISTORY
title: 143; label: Stegosaurus
title: 144; label: THE WIDE EXTENT OF THE STEGOSAURS
title: 149; label: THE EARLY EXTINCTION OF THE STEGOSAURS
title: 151; label: 10.
title: Armored dinosaurs
pagenum: 153; label: THE NATURE OF THE ANKYLOSAURS
title: 153; label: EARLY ARMORED DINOSAURS
title: 156; label: A VARIETY OF NODOSAURS
title: 158; label: THE ROLE OF THE ARMORED DINOSAURS
title: 160; label: 11.
title: Horned dinosaurs
pagenum: 163; label: THE FIRST DISCOVERIES
title: 163; label: CERATOPSIAN ANCESTORS
title: 165; label: THE FIRST CERATOPSIANS
title: 167; label: GIANT HORNED DINOSAURS
title: 172; label: SOME PROBLEMS
title: 175; label: 12.
title: Tracks
pagenum: 181; label: THE MAKING OF TRACKS
title: 181; label: THE NAMING OF TRACKS
title: 183; label: THE CONNECTICUT VALLEY TRACKS
title: 185; label: THE GLEN ROSE TRACKS
title: 187; label: TRACKS FROM HERE AND THERE
title: 190; label: 13. Brains, brawn and temperatures
title: 195; label: BRAINS AND ENDOCRANIAL CASTS
title: 195; label: BRAINS AND BODIES
title: 196; label: THE LOWLY DINOSAURIAN BRAIN
title: 198; label: BEHIND THE BRAIN
title: 200; label: THE SLOW DINOSAURS
title: 203; label: TEMPERATURES
title: 204; label: DIETS OF THE DINOSAURS
title: 208; label: GIANTS OF THE MESOZOIC
title: 208; label: 14.
title: Eggs, embryos and juveniles
pagenum: 209; label: DISCOVERIES OF DINOSAUR EGGS
title: 209; label: THE VARIETY AND STRUCTURE OF THE EGGS
title: 214; label: NESTS
title: 216; label: EMBRYOS - OR VICTIMS OF CANNIBALISM?
title: 217; label: EGGS AND GROWTH
title: 218; label: JUVENILE DINOSAURS
title: 221; label: QUESTIONS FOR THE FUTURE
title: 223; label: 15.
title: Ages and environments of the dinosaurs
pagenum: 225; label: WHAT IS ENVIRONMENT?
title: 225; label: FACTORS OF DINOSAURIAN ENVIRONMENTS
title: 226; label: DINOSAURS AND CLIMATES
title: 229; label: DINOSAURS IN THE TRIASSIC WORLD
title: 230; label: DINOSAURS IN THE JURRASIC WORLD
title: 233; label: DINOSAURS IN THE CRETACEOUS WORLD
title: 237; label: 16.
title: The extinction of the dinosaurs
pagenum: 249; label: THE PROBLEM OF EXTINCTION
title: 249; label: SOME THEORIES CONCERNING THE EXTINCTION OF DINOSAURS
title: 252; label: THE FINAL YEARS
title: 257; label: FINAL THOUGHTS
title: 259; label: 17.
title: A classification
pagenum: 261; label: SOME GENERAL REMARKS
title: 261; label: THE HIERARCHY
title: 262; label: THE NAMING OF FOSSILS
title: 264; label: CLASSIFICATION OF THE DINOSAURS
title: 265; label: THE LARGER UNITS
title: 266; label: THE GENERA
title: 268; label: GENERA OF UPPER TRIASSIC DINOSAURS
title: 268; label: GENERA OF LOWER JURASSIC DINOSAURS
title: 269; label: GENERA OF MIDDLE AND UPPER JURASSIC DINOSAURS
title: 270; label: GENERA OF LOWER CRETACEOUS DINOSAURS
title: 271; label: GENERAL OF UPPER CRETACEOUS DINOSAURS
title: 272; label: 18. Bones and books
title: 275; label: WHERE TO SEE DINOSAURS
title: 275; label: SOME BOOKS
title: 278; label: FOR THOSE WHO WOULD DELVE MORE DEEPLY
title: 280; label: AUTHORS
title: 281; label: BIBLIOGRAPHIES OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY
title: 281; label: CREDITS FOR PLATES
title: 282; label: CREDITS FOR FIGURES
title: 283; label: INDEX
title: 287