The Princeton Field Guide to Pterosaurs / / Gregory S. Paul.
The most up-to-date and authoritative illustrated guide to the marvelous flying reptiles that dominated the skies of the Mesozoic for 160 million yearsOnce seen by some as evolutionary dead-enders, pterosaurs were vigorous winged reptiles capable of thriving in an array of habitats and climates, inc...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2022] ©2022 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Field Guides ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (184 p.) :; Color + b/w illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- PREFACE
- INTRODUCTION
- HISTORY OF DISCOVERY AND RESEARCH
- WHAT IS A PTEROSAUR?
- DATING PTEROSAURS
- EVOLUTION OF PTEROSAURS AND THEIR WORLD
- EXTINCTION
- AFTER THE AGE OF PTEROSAURS
- BIOLOGY
- BEHAVIOR
- GROWTH
- ENERGETICS
- GIGANTISM
- MESOZOIC OXYGEN
- PTEROSAUR SAFARI
- IF PTEROSAURS SURVIVED
- PTEROSAUR CONSERVATION, KEEPING, AND CONSUMPTION
- WHERE PTEROSAURS ARE FOUND
- PTEROSAUR COUNT
- USING THE GROUP AND SPECIES DESCRIPTIONS
- Group and Species Accounts
- PTEROSAURS
- RHAMPHORHYNCHOIDS
- PTERODACTYLOIDS
- REFERENCES
- INDEX