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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.

Amber fossils. --- Plants, Fossil --- Dinosaurs --- Insects, Fossil --- Insects, Fossil. --- Paleoecology --- Paleontology --- Amber --- Biological inclusions in amber --- Fossil-bearing amber --- Fossiliferous amber --- Fossils in amber --- Fossils --- Fossil plants --- Plant fossils --- Dinosauria --- Reptiles, Fossil --- Arthropoda, Fossil --- Paleoentomology --- Cretaceous Period --- Diseases. --- Parasites. --- Ecology. --- Biological inclusions --- Inclusions

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While much attention has been given to animal life in amber, the remains of a variety of plants, including angiosperm flowers, also exist in fossilized resin. Presented here is a pictorial synopsis of 94 flowers that occur in four major amber deposits around the world. These deposits are from Burma (Myanmar), the Baltic area, the Dominican Republic and Mexico, and range in age from the mid-Cretaceous to the mid-Tertiary. The basic features of these flowers are presented and their relationship with existing plant lineages discussed. This work will be of interest to amber enthusiasts, plant taxonomists, plant morphologists, plant ecologists, plant evolutionists and plant paleontologists.

Angiosperms, Fossil. --- Amber fossils. --- Amber --- Biological inclusions in amber --- Fossil-bearing amber --- Fossiliferous amber --- Fossils in amber --- Fossils --- Plants, Fossil --- Biological inclusions --- Inclusions --- Botany. --- Paleontology. --- Plant ecology. --- Plants --- Plant Science. --- Plant Ecology. --- Plant Evolution. --- Evolution. --- Plant evolution --- Evolution (Biology) --- Botany --- Floristic ecology --- Phytoecology --- Vegetation ecology --- Ecology --- Fossilogy --- Fossilology --- Palaeontology --- Paleontology, Zoological --- Paleozoology --- Historical geology --- Zoology --- Prehistoric animals in motion pictures --- Botanical science --- Floristic botany --- Phytobiology --- Phytography --- Phytology --- Plant biology --- Plant science --- Biology --- Natural history --- Phylogeny