TY - BOOK ID - 77879183 TI - What Bugged the Dinosaurs? AU - Poinar, George, AU - Poinar, Roberta PY - 2010 SN - 1282531662 9786612531668 1400835690 9781400835690 9780691124315 0691124310 9781282531666 6612531665 PB - Princeton, NJ DB - UniCat KW - Amber fossils. KW - Plants, Fossil KW - Dinosaurs KW - Insects, Fossil KW - Insects, Fossil. KW - Paleoecology KW - Paleontology KW - Amber KW - Biological inclusions in amber KW - Fossil-bearing amber KW - Fossiliferous amber KW - Fossils in amber KW - Fossils KW - Fossil plants KW - Plant fossils KW - Dinosauria KW - Reptiles, Fossil KW - Arthropoda, Fossil KW - Paleoentomology KW - Cretaceous Period KW - Diseases. KW - Parasites. KW - Ecology. KW - Biological inclusions KW - Inclusions UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77879183 AB - This book reveals that T. rex was not the only killer in the Cretaceous: insects--from biting sand flies to disease-causing parasites--dominated life on the planet and played a significant role in the life and death of the dinosaurs. Analyzing exotic insects fossilized in Cretaceous amber at three major deposits in Lebanon, Burma, and Canada, the authors reconstruct the complex ecology of a hostile prehistoric world inhabited by voracious swarms of insects. They draw upon tantalizing new evidence from their discoveries of disease-producing vertebrate pathogens in Cretaceous blood-sucking flies, as well as intestinal worms and protozoa found in fossilized dinosaur excrement, to provide a unique view of how insects infected with malaria, leishmania, and other pathogens, together with intestinal parasites, could have devastated dinosaur populations.--From publisher description. ER -