Jurassic West, Second Edition
Indiana University Press (Verlag)
9780253051578 (ISBN)
Aimed at the general reader, Jurassic West, Second Edition recounts the discovery of many important Late Jurassic dinosaurs such as Apatosaurus, Allosaurus, and Stegosaurus. But dinosaurs compose barely a third of the more than 90 types of vertebrates known from the formation, which include crocodiles and turtles, frogs and salamanders, dinosaurs and mammals, clams and snails, and ginkgoes, ferns, and conifers.
Featuring nearly all new illustrations, the second edition of this classic work includes new taxa named since 2007, updates to the naming and classifications of some old taxa, and expanded sections on numerous aspects of Morrison Formation paleontology and geology.
John Foster is a paleontologist at the Utah Field House of Natural History State Park Museum in Vernal, Utah. He has conducted fieldwork and research in the Morrison Formation throughout the Rocky Mountain region for 30 years, starting while a graduate student at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology and the University of Colorado, Boulder. He previously worked as executive director of the Moab Museum in Moab, Utah, and curator of paleontology at the Museums of Western Colorado in Fruita, Colorado. He is also author of Cambrian Ocean World: Ancient Sea Life of North America.
Foreword by Dale Russell
Preface
Preface to the Second Edition
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
1 Rainbow Country: An Introduction to Morrison Formation Geology
2 Setting the Stage: Vertebrates and the Jurassic World
3 The Start of it All: The Morrison Vertebrates Come to Light
4 Renaissance: The Picture Fills In
5 Fins, Scales, and Wings: The Morrison Menagerie, Part I
6 Gargantuan to Minuscule: The Morrison Menagerie, Part II
7 The Mess and the Magic: Vertebrate Paleoecology of the Morrison Formation
8 Many Rivers to Cross: A Late Jurassic Journey across the Morrison Floodplain
Epilogue: The Morrison Fauna in World Context
Appendix A
Appendix B
Glossary
Notes
References
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 26.10.2020 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Life of the Past |
| Vorwort | Dale A. Russell |
| Zusatzinfo | 170 color photos, 6 b&w photos, 4 maps, 33 figures, 1 color table - 170 Halftones, color - 6 Halftones, black and white - 4 Maps - 1 Tables, color - 33 Figures |
| Verlagsort | Bloomington, IN |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 178 x 254 mm |
| Gewicht | 1678 g |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Naturwissenschaft |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Mineralogie / Paläontologie | |
| ISBN-13 | 9780253051578 / 9780253051578 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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