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Michael J. Everhart, Adjunct Curator of Paleontology at the Sternberg Museum of Natural History in Hays, Kansas, is an expert on the Late Cretaceous of western Kansas. He is the creator of the award-winning "Oceans of Kansas" paleontology website at [...] He lives in Derby, Kansas.

Michael J. Everhart, Adjunct Curator of Paleontology at the Sternberg Museum of Natural History in Hays, Kansas, is an expert on the Late Cretaceous of western Kansas. He is the creator of the award-winning "Oceans of Kansas" paleontology website at [...] He lives in Derby, Kansas.

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Michael J. Everhart, Adjunct Curator of Paleontology at the Sternberg Museum of Natural History in Hays, Kansas, is an expert on the Late Cretaceous of western Kansas. He is the creator of the award-winning "Oceans of Kansas" paleontology website at [...] He lives in Derby, Kansas.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

1. Introduction: An Ocean in Kansas?

2. Our Discovery of the Western Interior Sea

3. Invertebrates, Plants, and Trace Fossils

4. Sharks: Sharp Teeth and Shell Crushers

5. Fishes, Large and Small

6. Turtles: Leatherback Giants

7. Where the Elasmosaurs Roamed

8. Pliosaurs and Polycotylids

9. Enter the Mosasaurs

10. Pteranodons: Rulers of the Air

11. Feathers and Teeth

12. Dinosaurs?

13. The Big Picture

Epilogue: Where Did It Go?

References

Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
Fachbereich: Paläontologie
Genre: Geowissenschaften, Importe
Rubrik: Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium: Buch
ISBN-13: 9780253026323
ISBN-10: 0253026326
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Everhart, Michael J
Auflage: 2nd edition
Hersteller: Indiana University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 261 x 186 x 38 mm
Von/Mit: Michael J Everhart
Erscheinungsdatum: 11.09.2017
Gewicht: 1,572 kg
Artikel-ID: 132527815

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