What Bugged the Dinosaurs? : : Insects, Disease, and Death in the Cretaceous / / George Poinar, Roberta Poinar.
Millions of years ago in the Cretaceous period, the mighty Tyrannosaurus rex--with its dagger-like teeth for tearing its prey to ribbons--was undoubtedly the fiercest carnivore to roam the Earth. Yet as What Bugged the Dinosaurs? reveals, T. rex was not the only killer. George and Roberta Poinar sho...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2010] ©2008 |
| Year of Publication: | 2010 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Fossils: A Time Capsule
- 2. The Cretaceous: A Time of Change
- 3. Herbivory
- 4. Dinosaurs Competing with Insects
- 5. Did Dinosaurs or Insects "Invent" Flowering Plants?
- 6. Pollination
- 7. Blights and Diseases of Cretaceous Plants
- 8. The Cretaceous: Age of Chimeras and Other Oddities
- 9. Sanitary Engineers of the Cretaceous
- 10. The Case for Entomophagy among Dinosaurs
- 11. Gorging on Dinosaurs
- 12. Biting Midges
- 13. Sand Flies
- 14. Mosquitoes
- 15. Blackflies
- 16. Horseflies and Deerflies
- 17. Fleas and Lice
- 18. Ticks and Mites
- 19. Parasitic Worms
- 20. The Discovery of Cretaceous Diseases
- 21. Diseases and the Evolution of Pathogens
- 22. Insects: The Ultimate Survivors
- 23. Extinctions and the K/T Boundary
- Appendix A: Cretaceous Hexapoda
- Appendix B: Key Factors Contributing to the Survival of Terrestrial Animals
- Appendix C: Problems with Evaluating the Fossil Record and Extinctions
- References
- Index