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Evolution of jaw mechanisms in ornithopod dinosaurs
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ISBN: 3540131140 0387131140 Year: 1984 Publisher: Berlin : Springer,

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An Illustrated Guide to Dinosaur Feeding Biology.
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ISBN: 1421413531 1421445875 Year: 2023 Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press

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This beautifully illustrated exploration of the diversity, anatomy, and evolution of dinosaur feeding adaptations is the first and only in-depth look at this crucial aspect of paleoecology.In An Illustrated Guide to Dinosaur Feeding Biology, experts Ali Nabavizadeh and David B. Weishampel bring dinosaurs to life on the page by exploring and illustrating their feeding adaptations. Whether dinosaurs were carnivorous, herbivorous, or omnivorous, their evolution produced a multitude of specialized adaptations that helped shape their ecologies. Dinosaur skulls show a variety of bone and joint specializations ideal for withstanding stresses and strains induced by high bite forces with strong jaw musculature. The bladed, steak-knife dentition of many carnivorous dinosaurs was well-suited for slicing meat and crushing bones, while the leaf-shaped, sometimes tightly packed dentition of many herbivorous dinosaurs was ideal for grinding up a variety of plant material.The first book of its kind, An Illustrated Guide to Dinosaur Feeding Biologyis a synthesis of over a century of dinosaur feeding biology research, from the earliest hypotheses in the 1800s to today's studies using advanced techniques. Intended for both researchers and dinosaur enthusiasts alike, this book discusses functional morphological studies highlighting comparative anatomy, tooth wear, muscle reconstruction, and biomechanical analysis using modeling techniques like finite element analysis and multibody dynamics analysis. In addition to the feeding apparatus, Nabavizadeh and Weishampel explore postcranial adaptations and discuss the evolution of dinosaurs and their paleoecology more broadly. Integrating these various factors improves our understanding of dinosaurs as the living beings they were in their ecosystems millions of years ago and ultimately expands our knowledge and perspective of today's ecosystems by framing them in a broaderevolutionary context.

The evolution and extinction of the dinosaurs
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ISBN: 0521444969 9780521444965 Year: 1996 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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The dinosauria
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ISBN: 0520067266 Year: 1990 Publisher: Berkeley, Calif. University of California Press

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Dinosaurs : a concise natural history
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ISBN: 9780521282376 9781107010796 0521282373 1107010799 Year: 2012 Publisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press,

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"Updated with the material that instructors want, Dinosaurs continues to make science exciting and understandable to non-science majors through its narrative of scientific concepts rather than endless facts. Now with new material on pterosaurs, an expanded section of the evolution of the dinosaurs, and new photographs to help students engage with geology, natural history, and evolution. The authors ground the text in the language of modern evolutionary biology, phylogenetic systematics, and teach students to examine the paleontology of dinosaurs exactly as the professionals in the field do using these methods to reconstruct dinosaur relationships"--


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Transylvanian dinosaurs
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ISBN: 1421403501 9781421403502 9781421400273 1421400278 Year: 2011 Publisher: Baltimore Johns Hopkins University Press

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Transylvanian Dinosaurs strikes an engaging balance between biography and scientific treatise and is sure to capture the imagination of professional paleontologists and amateur dinophiles alike.


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Theoretical morphology : an annotated bibliography 1960-1990
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ISBN: 3924500800 9783924500801 Year: 1991 Publisher: Frankfurt am Main : Senckenbergische Naturforschende Gesellschaft

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The evolution and extinction of the dinosaurs
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ISBN: 9780521811729 0521811724 Year: 2005 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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The dinosauria
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ISBN: 0520242092 Year: 2004 Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press,

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The dinosauria
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ISBN: 1282360450 9786612360459 0520941438 9780520941434 0520242092 9780520242098 Year: 2004 Publisher: Berkeley, Calif. London University of California Press

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When the The Dinosauria was first published more than a decade ago, it was hailed as "the best scholarly reference work available on dinosaurs" and "an historically unparalleled compendium of information." This second, fully revised edition continues in the same vein as the first but encompasses the recent spectacular discoveries that have continued to revolutionize the field. A state-of-the-science view of current world research, the volume includes comprehensive coverage of dinosaur systematics, reproduction, and life history strategies, biogeography, taphonomy, paleoecology, thermoregulation, and extinction. Its internationally renowned authors-forty-four specialists on the various members of the Dinosauria-contribute definitive descriptions and illustrations of these magnificent Mesozoic beasts. The first section of The Dinosauria begins with the origin of the great clade of these fascinating reptiles, followed by separate coverage of each major dinosaur taxon, including the Mesozoic radiation of birds. The second part of the volume navigates through broad areas of interest. Here we find comprehensive documentation of dinosaur distribution through time and space, discussion of the interface between geology and biology, and the paleoecological inferences that can be made through this link. This new edition will be the benchmark reference for everyone who needs authoritative information on dinosaurs.

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