Pterosaurs : : Natural History, Evolution, Anatomy /

Pterosaurs : : Natural History, Evolution, Anatomy / / Mark P. Witton.

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For 150 million years, the skies didn't belong to birds--they belonged to the pterosaurs. These flying reptiles, which include the pterodactyls, shared the world with the nonavian dinosaurs until their extinction 65 million years ago. Some pterosaurs, such as the giant azhdarchids, were the lar...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Witton, Mark P.,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2013]
©2013
Year of Publication:2013
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (304 p.) :; 152 color illus. 26 halftones. 14 line illus. 17 maps.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Leathery-Winged Harpies
  • 2. Understanding the Flying Reptiles
  • 3. Pterosaur Beginnings
  • 4.The Pterosaur Skeleton
  • 5. Soft Bits
  • 6. Flying Reptiles
  • 7. Down from the Skies
  • 8. The Private Lives of Pterosaurs
  • 9. The Diversity of Pterosaurs
  • 10. Early Pterosaurs and Dimorphodontidae
  • 11. Anurognathidae
  • 12. "Campylognathoidids"
  • 13. Rhamphorhynchidae
  • 14. Wukongopteridae
  • 15. Istiodactylidae
  • 16. Ornithocheiridae
  • 17. Boreopteridae
  • 18. Pteranodontia
  • 19. Ctenochasmatoidea
  • 20. Dsungaripteroidea
  • 21. Lonchodectidae
  • 22. Tapejaridae
  • 23. Chaoyangopteridae
  • 24. Thalassodromidae
  • 25. Azhdarchidae
  • 26. The Rise and Fall of the Pterosaur Empire
  • References
  • Index

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