The Princeton field guide to pterosaurs
The most up-to-date and authoritative illustrated guide to the marvelous flying reptiles that dominated the skies of the Mesozoic for 160 million years. Once seen by some as evolutionary dead-enders, pterosaurs were vigorous winged reptiles capable of thriving in an array of habitats and climates, i...
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| Format: | Livre numérique |
| Idioma: | Anglais |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press
2022.
Paris : Cyberlibris |
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| Accés en línia: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès INSA CVL |
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| Edition sous un autre format: | • The Princeton field guide to pterosaurs, Gregory S. Paul, 2022, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1 vol. (184 p.), Princeton field guides, 978-0-691-18017-5 |
Taula de continguts:
- Introduction
- History of discovery and research
- What is a pterosaur?
- Dating pterosaur
- Evolution of pterosaurs and their world
- Extinction
- After the age of pterosaurs
- Biology
- Behaviour
- Growth
- Energetics
- Gigantism
- Mesozioc oxygen
- Pterosaur safari
- If pterosaurs survived
- Pterosaur conservation, keeping, and consumption
- Where pterosaur are found
- Pterosaur count
- Using the group and species descriptions
- Group and species accounts
- Pterosaurs
- Rhamphorhynchoids
- Pterodactyloids