Dinosaurs and other extinct saurians
Subtitle: a historical perspective
By: edited by R.T.J. Moody ... [et al.].
Series: Geological society special publication -- no. 343; Geological Society special publication -- no. 343.
Publisher: Geological Society
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 394
ISBN-13: 9781862393110
Subjects: Research; Dinosaurs; Paleontology; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Dinosaurs and other extinct saurians : a historical perspective : introduction / Richard T.J. Moody ... [et al.]; title: The roles played by museums, collections and collectors in the early history of reptile palaeontology / Mark Evans; title: William Perceval Hunter (1812-1878), forgotten English student of dinosaurs-to-be and of Wealden rocks / H.S. Torrens; title: 'Old bones, dry subject' : the dinosaurs and pterosaur collected by Alfred Nicholson Leeds of Peterborough, England / Leslie F. Noè ... [et al.]; title: Life and ideas of Giovanni Capellini (1833-1922) : a palaeontological revolution in Italy / Federico Fanti; title: Alan Jack Charig (1927-1997) : an overview of his academic accomplishments and role in the world of fossil reptile research / Richard T.J. Moody, Darren Naish; title: Forgotten women in an extinct saurian (man's) world / Susan Turner ... [et al.]; title: Wilhelm (Guillermo) Schulz and the earliest discoveries of dinosaurs and marine reptiles in Spain / Xabier Pereda Suberbiola ... [et al.]; title: The history of dinosaur collecting in central India, 1828-1947 / Matthew T. Carrano ... [et al.]; title: Spinosaurs before Stromer : early finds of spinosaurid dinosaurs and their interpretations / Eric Buffetaut; title: Yorkshire dinosaurs : a history in two parts / Martin A. Whyte ... [et al.]; title: Chirotherium, the Liverpool footprint hunters and their interpretation of the Middle Trias environment / A.J. Bowden ... [et al.]; title: Pneumaticity, the early years : Wealden Supergroup dinosaurs and the hypothesis of saurischian pneumaticity / Darren Naish; title: A short history of research on Archaeopteryx and its relationship with dinosaurs / Peter Wellnhofer; title: Thomas Henry Huxley and the reptile to bird transition / Brian Switek; title: A history of digit identification in the manus of theropods (including Aves) / Kasper Lykke Hansen; title: The history of Late Jurassic pterosaurs housed in Hungarian collections and the revision of the holotype of Pterodactylus micronyx Meyer 1856 (a 'Pester Exemplar') / Attila Ősi ... [et al.]; title: The early history of pterosaur discovery in Great Britain / David M. Martill; title: Pteranodon and beyond : the history of giant pterosaurs from 1870 onwards / Mark P. Witton; title: Art and palaeontology in German-occupied France : Les Diplodocus by Mathurin Méheut (1943) / Jean Le Loeuff; title: 2000 A.D. and the new 'Flesh' : first to report the dinosaur renaissance in 'moving' pictures / J.J. Liston; title: Sauropod dinosaur research : a historical review / Michael P. Taylor.