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Beschreibung

-Best popular overview of the dinosaurs from the Jurassic Era discovered in the American West.

-First Edition was award-winning, critically acclaimed, and sold over 3,000 copies.

-2nd Edition is thoroughly revised and contains over 100 new illustrations.

-Best popular overview of the dinosaurs from the Jurassic Era discovered in the American West.

-First Edition was award-winning, critically acclaimed, and sold over 3,000 copies.

-2nd Edition is thoroughly revised and contains over 100 new illustrations.

Über den Autor

John Foster is a paleontologist at the Utah Field House of Natural History State Park Museum in Vernal, Utah. He has conducted fieldwork and research in the Morrison Formation throughout the Rocky Mountain region for 30 years, starting while a graduate student at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology and the University of Colorado, Boulder. He previously worked as executive director of the Moab Museum in Moab, Utah, and curator of paleontology at the Museums of Western Colorado in Fruita, Colorado. He is also author of Cambrian Ocean World: Ancient Sea Life of North America.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword by Dale Russell
Preface
Preface to the Second Edition
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
1 Rainbow Country: An Introduction to Morrison Formation Geology
2 Setting the Stage: Vertebrates and the Jurassic World
3 The Start of it All: The Morrison Vertebrates Come to Light
4 Renaissance: The Picture Fills In
5 Fins, Scales, and Wings: The Morrison Menagerie, Part I
6 Gargantuan to Minuscule: The Morrison Menagerie, Part II
7 The Mess and the Magic: Vertebrate Paleoecology of the Morrison Formation
8 Many Rivers to Cross: A Late Jurassic Journey across the Morrison Floodplain
Epilogue: The Morrison Fauna in World Context
Appendix A
Appendix B
Glossary
Notes
References
Index

Details
Empfohlen (von): 18
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Fachbereich: Paläontologie
Genre: Geowissenschaften, Importe
Rubrik: Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium: Buch
Inhalt: Einband - fest (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9780253051578
ISBN-10: 0253051576
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Foster, John
Auflage: 2nd edition
Hersteller: Indiana University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 259 x 179 x 37 mm
Von/Mit: John Foster
Erscheinungsdatum: 20.10.2020
Gewicht: 1,71 kg
Artikel-ID: 117983773

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