Research Catalog

Title

Dawn of the dinosaurs : life in the Triassic / Nicholas Fraser ; illustrated by Douglas Henderson.

Author

Fraser, Nicholas C.

Publication

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2006.

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Details

Description

xvi, 307 p. : ill. (some col.), col. map; 29 cm.

Summary

Science and art collaborate to recreate life on Earth more than 200 million years ago.

Series Statement

Life of the past

Uniform Title

Life of the past.

Subject

• From 190 to 230 million years ago
• Paleontology > Triassic
• Paleoecology > Triassic
• Dinosaurs
• Dinosaurs

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-300) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

pt. 1. The end of an era: the Early Triassic. Setting the stage: the paleogeography and climate of the Triassic world -- A brief phylogeny of Triassic fishes and tetrapods -- Starting out in the Triassic -- pt. 2. A comfortable Middle Age: the Middle Triassic. A hint of the sea -- No midlife crisis -- pt. 3. A time of change: the Early Late Triassic. Marginal creatures in a marginal world -- The enigmas of Texas and the U.S. Southwest -- Life in the sand dunes? The Elgin reptiles -- Life in the deep South: the Late Triassic of Gondwana -- pt. 4. The birth of Modern Terrestrial ecosystems. Pitfalls in paleontology: the British fissure deposits -- Time to go our separate ways: the Newark supergroup -- A catastrophic finale? the mode and tempo of faunal change.

ISBN

• 0253346525 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9780253346520 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2005035986

OCLC

62615932

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library