List of Contributors

Part One: The Discovery of Dinosaurs

1. Dinosaurs: The Earliest Discoveries

David A. E. Spalding and William A. S. Sarjeant

2. Politics and Paleontology: Richard Owen and the Invention of Dinosaurs

Hugh S. Torrens

[...]opean Dinosaur Hunters of the 19th and 20th Centuries

Hans-Dieter Sues

4. North American Dinosaur Hunters

Edwin H. Colbert, David D. Gillette, and Ralph E. Molnar

5. The Search for Dinosaurs in Asia

Corwin Sullivan, David W. E. Hone, and Xing Xu

6. Dinosaur Hunters of the Southern Continents

Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.

Part Two: The Study of Dinosaurs

7. Hunting for Dinosaur Bones

David D. Gillette

8. The Osteology of the Dinosaurs

Thomas R. Holtz and M. K. Brett-Surman

9. Reconstructing the Musculature of Dinosaurs

David W. Dilkes, John R. Hutchinson, Casey M. Holliday, and Lawrence M. Witmer

10. Dinosaur Paleoneurology

Emily Buchholtz

11. Taxonomy of the Dinosauria

Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. and M. K. Brett-Surman

12. Dinosaurs and Geologic Time

James I. Kirkland and James O. Farlow

13. Technology and the Study of Dinosaurs

Ralph E. Chapman, Art Andersen, Brent H. Breithaupt, and Neffra A. Matthews

14. Claws, Scales, Beaks, and Feathers: Molecular Traces in the Fossil Record

Mary Higby Schweitzer and Mark Marshall

15. Dinosaurs as Museum Exhibits

Kenneth Carpenter

16. Restoring Dinosaurs as Living Animals

Douglas Henderson

Part Three: The Clades of Dinosaurs

17. Evolution of the Archosaurs

J. Michael Parrish

18. Origin and Early Evolution of Dinosaurs

Michael J. Benton

19. Theropods

Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.

20. Birds

Darren Naish

21. Basal Sauropodomorpha: The "Prosauropods"

Adam Yates

22. Sauropoda

Jeffrey A. Wilson and Kristina Curry Rogers

23. Stegosaurs

Peter M. Galton

24. Ankylosaurs

Kenneth Carpenter

25. Marginocephalia

Peter Makovicky

26. Ornithopods

Richard J. Butler and Paul M. Barrett

Part Four: Paleobiology of the Dinosaurs

27. Land Plants as a Source of Food and Environment in the Age of Dinosaurs

Bruce H. Tiffney

28. What Did Dinosaurs Eat: Coprolites and Other Direct Evidence of Dinosaur Diets

Karen Chin

29. Reproductive Biology of Dinosaurs

Terry D. Jones and Nicholas R. Geist

30. Dinosaur Eggs

Darla K. Zelenitsky, John R. Horner, and François Therrien

31. How Dinosaurs Grew

R. E. H. Reid

32. Engineering a Dinosaur

Donald Henderson

33. Disease in Dinosaurs

Elizabeth Rega

34. The Scientific Study of Dinosaur Footprints

James O. Farlow, Ralph E. Chapman, Brent Breithaupt, and Neffra Matthews

35. The Role of Heterochrony in Dinosaur Evolution

Kenneth J. McNamara and John A. Long

36. Metabolic Physiology of Dinosaurs and Early Birds

John A. Ruben, Terry D. Jones, Nicholas R. Geist, Willem J. Hillenius, Amy E. Harwell, and Devon E. Quick

37. Evidence for Avian-Mammalian Aerobic Capacity and Thermoregulation in Mesozoic Dinosaurs

Gregory S. Paul

38. "Intermediate" Dinosaurs: The Case Updated

R. E. H. Reid

Part Five: Dinosaur Evolution in the Mesozoic

39. Principles of Biogeography

Ralph E. Molnar

40. Non-Dinosaurian Vertebrates

Nicholas C. Fraser

41. Early Mesozoic Continental Tetrapods and Faunal Changes

Hans-Dieter Sues

42. Dinosaurian Faunas of the Later Mesozoic

Matthew T. Carrano

43. Dinosaur Extinction: Past and Present Perspectives

J. David Archibald

44. Life after Death: Dinosaur Fossils in Human Hands

Daniel J. Chure

45. Dinosaurs and Evolutionary Theory

Kevin Padian and Elizabeth K. Burton

Appendix: Dinosaur-Related WWW Sites

Glossary

Index