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Title: Mesozoic Vertebrate Life: by Darren H. Tanke, Kenneth Carpenter, Michael William Skrepnick ISBN: 0-253-33907-3 Publisher: Indiana University Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Mesozoic Vertebrate Life
Comment: Mesozoic Vertebrate Life Edited By Darren H. Tanke and Kenneth Carpenter with Michael W. Skrepnick as the art editor is a new research inspired by the paleontology of Philip J. Currie is an excellent book... a book for the advanced dinosaur enthusiast. This book goes into detail about Theropods, Sauropods, Ornithischians, Dinosaurian Faunas, Paleopathologies, Ichnology, and Dinosaurs and Human History.
This book has a whole host of contributors(46 to be exact). All of the men and women are tops in their respective fields, so this book is like reading a medical book with all of the resplendent medical terms. Ah, but doen't give up, there are some very excellent drawings that help explain what the author is talking about, so your not left in the dust choking on the dust. I've noticed that the best dinosaur book on detail are written in this style where a collaboration of many authors that are expert and on the cutting edge with break throughs are written this way.
I would say this, the fossil record is telling the finder something... the finder has to study what he has found and make a determination and conclusion as to what he has found. All of this takes education, trial and error, and luck. So, you have the best guesses written here... things may stay as they were presented or they may change with insight, only time will tell.
If you are more than just a casual dinosaur devotee, than this is the book for you. It is light on the early Mesozoic, but it makes up for it in the late Mesozoic. The book is mainly composed of North American Mesozoic, but there is representation in China, and South America included.
There are excellent references included with there abstracts. This s not a book for children, this is an advanced case study of the dinosaura of the Mesozoic time. Those wishing for a book that compares jaws and endocarnial anatomy will relish this book. There is even an abstract on "The Impact of Sedimentology on Vertebrate Track Studies" which I found fascinating. I didn't know they went to that much detail, in models of track formation show clearly that the layer upon which the foot descends retains the most information of the impactor. Stresses are distributed radially away from the impact site and decrease exponentially with distance.
If you want detail this book has it. There are seven sections as I mentioned above, and they are divided into 33 chapters. This took a while to read and digest the information. This would make an interesting additions to a home library.
Rating: 5
Summary: Great guide to dinosaurs
Comment: Research papers on dinosaurs continue to increase in number, and many bring readers new and thoughtful ideas about the biology of these ancient, dramatic animals. A growing number of books for public and professionals focus on Mesozoic animals, dinosaurs in particular; this one is for professionals. The 33 papers essentially cover dinosaurs of North America, but there are papers on Chinese and Patagonian dinosaurs. Most papers are systematic studies, and some include descriptions of new taxa, but there are also useful studies on dinosaur anatomy, biomechanics, gastroliths, and even sociobiology. A section on ichnology (footprints) examines traces of other animals than dinosaurs; four papers discuss paleopathologies, showing how much about extinct animals can be gleaned from the condition of preserved bones, and another treats dinosaurs in fiction, with many illustrations derived from novels, comics, and other literature sources. About 20 color paintings, restorations of important dinosaurs in lifelike settings, are included along with photographs of the critical feather-like features on some recently discovered Chinese dinosaur fossils. Unfortunately, many of the black-and-white photographs are rather muddy. A useful book for many paleontologists, at a reasonable price. Upper-division undergraduates and up
Rating: 5
Summary: By "Mesozic Life" you mean "dinosaurs"...
Comment: The title is misleading. If you're looking for information on pterosaurs, plesiosaurs, or Mesozoic crocs, this book probably isn't for you. However, if you want to get the skinny on Tyrannosaurus arm movement and what they were used for (yeah, amazing, eh?), new dinosaurs, and generally good information on dinosaurs, this is a good book to consider. Heavy on the second half of the Mesozoic, the book none the less manages to have a good variety of papers about various aspects of dinosaurian paleobiology, phylogeny, and behavior. A great volume.
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Title: The Dinosauria (Centennial Book) by David B. Weishampel, Peter Dodson, Halszka Osmolska ISBN: 0520067274 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: December, 1992 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
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Title: The Horned Dinosaurs by Peter Dodson ISBN: 0691059004 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 30 March, 1998 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Complete Dinosaur by James O. Farlow, M. K. Brett-Surman, Robert F. Walters ISBN: 0253213134 Publisher: Indiana University Press Pub. Date: April, 1999 List Price(USD): $37.95 |
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Title: The Armored Dinosaurs by Kenneth Carpenter ISBN: 0253339642 Publisher: Indiana University Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $75.00 |
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Title: Dinosaurs: The Encyclopedia (Dinosaurs. the Encyclopedia, Supplement 3) by Donald F. Glut, Luis M., Ph.D. Chiappe, Luis M. Chappe ISBN: 0786415185 Publisher: McFarland & Company Pub. Date: December, 2003 List Price(USD): $95.00 |
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