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Author : Nicholas C. Fraser
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Dawn of the Dinosaurs written by Nicholas C. Fraser and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science and art collaborate to recreate life on Earth more than 200 million years ago
Author : Hans-Dieter Sues
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231509413
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)
Download or read book Triassic Life on Land written by Hans-Dieter Sues and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2010-04-28 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Triassic period is generally viewed as the beginning of the Age of Dinosaurs. For paleontologists, however, it also marks the rise of the world's first modern land ecosystems. Over the past three decades, extensive, worldwide fieldwork has led to the discovery of many new species of Triassic animals and plants, suggesting that faunal and floral changes already began in the Middle Triassic and were more protracted than previously thought. The Late Triassic is a pivotal time in the evolution of life on land, with many of the major groups of present-day vertebrates and insects first appearing in the fossil record. This book provides the first detailed overview of life on land during the Triassic period for advanced students and researchers. Noted vertebrate paleontologists Hans-Dieter Sues and Nicholas C. Fraser also review the biotic changes of this period and their possible causes.
Author : Richard Swann Lull
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Triassic Life of the Connecticut Valley written by Richard Swann Lull and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hans-Dieter Sues
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231509411
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (94 download)
Download or read book Triassic Life on Land written by Hans-Dieter Sues and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2010-04-28 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Triassic period is generally viewed as the beginning of the Age of Dinosaurs. For paleontologists, however, it also marks the rise of the world's first modern land ecosystems. Over the past three decades, extensive, worldwide fieldwork has led to the discovery of many new species of Triassic animals and plants, suggesting that faunal and floral changes already began in the Middle Triassic and were more protracted than previously thought. The Late Triassic is a pivotal time in the evolution of life on land, with many of the major groups of present-day vertebrates and insects first appearing in the fossil record. This book provides the first detailed overview of life on land during the Triassic period for advanced students and researchers. Noted vertebrate paleontologists Hans-Dieter Sues and Nicholas C. Fraser also review the biotic changes of this period and their possible causes.
Author : Lawrence H. Tanner
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319680099
Total Pages : 806 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (196 download)
Download or read book The Late Triassic World written by Lawrence H. Tanner and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-11-16 with total page 806 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents the latest science on all significant geological and paleontological aspects of the Earth during the Late Triassic Period. Rather than presenting a collection of narrowly focused research papers, the volume consists of a series of peer-reviewed chapters on specific aspects of the Late Triassic world (e.g., tectonics, magmatism, paleobotany, climate, etc.), all authored by experts in the subject of their respective chapters. Each chapter reviews and summarizes the latest findings in these fields and also includes a review of the pertinent literature. The author list is very broadly international and forms a veritable who’s who of expertise in these fields. The book is loosely organized to present the physical aspects of Earth during the Late Triassic at the outset, followed by the paleontological aspects. The latter section is further organized to present the record of the marine environment first before moving onto land, with fauna followed by flora. The volume closes with a review of the end-Triassic extinctions.
Author : Dougal Dixon
Publisher : Barrons Juveniles
ISBN 13 : 9780764134814
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)
Download or read book Triassic Life written by Dougal Dixon and published by Barrons Juveniles. This book was released on 2006 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes twelve animals of the Triassic period, including Megatherium, Smilodon, and Australopithecus, with information on where they lived, when they lived, their length, special features, food, and enemies.
Author : Charles River Editors
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781687535085
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (35 download)
Download or read book The Triassic Period written by Charles River Editors and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-20 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Includes pictures *Includes a bibliography for further reading Scientists have long attempted to understand Earth's past, and in service to that effort, they have divided the world's history into eons, eras, periods, epochs and ages. For example, the current eon is called the Phanerozoic, which means "visible life." This is the eon in which multi-cellular life has evolved and thrived. Before this, life was microscopic (single cell).The Phanerozoic eon is divided into 3 eras - Paleozoic ("old life"), Mesozoic ("middle life") and Cenozoic ("new life"). From there, the Mesozoic era is divided into 3 periods - Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous. Before the Triassic, primitive life had built up in the oceans and seas, and some lifeforms finally had crawled onto land during the Paleozoic era. With that, life had become well established, but then came the Permian-Triassic mass extinction, the worst extinction event in the history of the planet. At the end of the Triassic, another extinction event cleared the way for dinosaurs to become the dominant set of species in the Jurassic. Though the Triassic does not have as interesting a list of creatures as those in the Jurassic and Cretaceous, such as Tyrannosaurus rex, Stegosaurus, Pterodactyls, Brontosaurus, and the like, the life which reclaimed the Earth and then thrived during this period was no less important. Life during the Triassic spent nearly 60% of its time recovering from the Permian-Triassic extinction event, roughly 30 million years. What had been built up was then slammed by nature, effectively clearing the board once more for new species to take over. The Triassic Period: The History and Legacy of the Geologic Era that Witnessed the Rise of Dinosaurs looks at the development of the era, the extinction events that preceded it, and how dinosaurs began to evolve in the Late Triassic. Along with pictures depicting important people, places, and events, you will learn about the Triassic Period like never before.
Author : Douglas H. Erwin
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691165653
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)
Download or read book Extinction written by Douglas H. Erwin and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-22 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some 250 million years ago, the earth suffered the greatest biological crisis in its history. Around 95 percent of all living species died out—a global catastrophe far greater than the dinosaurs' demise 185 million years later. How this happened remains a mystery. But there are many competing theories. Some blame huge volcanic eruptions that covered an area as large as the continental United States; others argue for sudden changes in ocean levels and chemistry, including burps of methane gas; and still others cite the impact of an extraterrestrial object, similar to what caused the dinosaurs' extinction. Extinction is a paleontological mystery story. Here, the world's foremost authority on the subject provides a fascinating overview of the evidence for and against a whole host of hypotheses concerning this cataclysmic event that unfolded at the end of the Permian. After setting the scene, Erwin introduces the suite of possible perpetrators and the types of evidence paleontologists seek. He then unveils the actual evidence--moving from China, where much of the best evidence is found; to a look at extinction in the oceans; to the extraordinary fossil animals of the Karoo Desert of South Africa. Erwin reviews the evidence for each of the hypotheses before presenting his own view of what happened. Although full recovery took tens of millions of years, this most massive of mass extinctions was a powerful creative force, setting the stage for the development of the world as we know it today. In a new preface, Douglas Erwin assesses developments in the field since the book's initial publication.
Author : Sunil Tanna
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781098529178
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (291 download)
Download or read book Dinosaurs & Other Animals of the Triassic written by Sunil Tanna and published by . This book was released on 2019-07-26 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second in a series of five books, this book tells the history of life at the start of the Mesozoic Era during the Triassic Period, which was between 252 and 201 million years ago. In this period, the first lepidosaurs (the group containing snakes and lizards) and first archosaurs (the group containing crocodiles and birds) appeared. The first dinosaurs walked the land, the first pterosaurs filled the skies, and the seas were populated by marine reptiles such as ichthyosaurs, plesiosaurs, and others. In this beautiful full-color illustrated book, you will learn about: The paleogeography of the Triassic - how the continents were joined in one gigantic supercontinent The climate of the Triassic The flora of the Triassic Marine life of the Triassic including plankton, marine invertebrates, fish and marine reptiles such ichthyosaurs, plesiosaurs and placodonts Terrestrial life of the Triassic including insects, spiders, lungfish, amphibians, parareptiles, therapsids (mammal-like reptiles), lepidosaurs, archosaurs and dinosaurs Dinosaurs of the Triassic including the split between lizard-hipped (Saurischia) and bird-hipped (Ornithischia) dinosaurs The first theropod dinosaurs (the group which would eventually give rise to Tyrannosaurus rex, Allosaurus, Velociraptor and birds) The first sauropodomorph dinosaurs (the group which would eventually rise to Apatosaurus, Brachiosaurus and Diplodocus) The first ornithischian dinosaurs (the group which would eventually give rise to Iguanodon, Triceratops, duckbilled dinosaurs and other famous herbivores) The Triassic coal gap Extinction events of the Triassic And much more Table of Contents: Introduction Chapter 1: Before the Triassic Period The Formation of the Solar System and the Earth The Hadean Eon The Archaean Eon The Proterozoic Eon The Phanerozoic Eon - The Paleozoic Era - The End of the Paleozoic Era Chapter 2: Introducing the Triassic Period Subdivisions (Epochs) of the Triassic Period - Early Triassic Epoch - Middle Triassic Epoch - Late Triassic Epoch Chapter 3: Paleogeography of the Triassic Period Chapter 4: Climate of the Triassic Period Chapter 5: Flora of the Triassic Period Chapter 6: Marine Fauna of the Triassic Period Plankton Marine Invertebrates Fish Sauropterygian Reptiles - Pachypleurosaurs - Nothosaurs - Placodonts - Pistosaurs, Plesiosaurs and Pliosaurs Turtles Ichthyosaurs Hupehsuchia Thalattosaurs Chapter 7: Terrestrial and Freshwater Fauna of the Triassic Period Insects Spiders Lungfish Amphibians Parareptiles Lepidosauromorpha Therapsids - Dicynodonts - Therocephalians - Cynodonts Archosaurs and Archosauromorpha - Protorosaurs - Pterosaurs - Rhynchosaurs - Allokotosaurs - Phytosaurs - Proterosuchids and Erythrosuchids - Aetosaurs - Revueltosaurus - Poposauroids - Ornithosuchids - Rauisuchoids - Crocodylomorpha - Dinosaurs and Dinosauromorpha Chapter 8: Dinosaurs and Dinosauromorpha Saurischia and Ornithischia Early Saurischian Dinosaurs - The First Theropods - Sauropodomorpha Early Ornithischian Dinosaurs Chapter 9: Triassic Coal Gap Chapter 10: Extinction Events of the Triassic Period Permian-Triassic Extinction Event Smith-Spathian Extinction Event Carnian Pluvial Event Triassic-Jurassic Extinction Event Chapter 11: After the Triassic The Jurassic Period The Cretaceous Period The Cenozoic Era
Author : Sébastien Steyer
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253223806
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (532 download)
Download or read book Earth Before the Dinosaurs written by Sébastien Steyer and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2012-06 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the Earth prior to dinosaurs and examines the creatures that lived here.
Author : Trond H. Torsvik
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107105323
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Earth History and Palaeogeography written by Trond H. Torsvik and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a complete Phanerozoic story of palaeogeography, using new and detailed full-colour maps, to link surface and deep-Earth processes.
Author : Rolf Ludvigsen
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774841516
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)
Download or read book Life in Stone written by Rolf Ludvigsen and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life in Stone is the first book to focus on British Columbia's fossils. Each of its chapters is written by a specialist for a general audience, and each is devoted to a separate fossil group that is particularly well represented in the province. Richly illustrated with photographs and drawings, Life in Stone will provide fascinating reading for anyone interested in learning more about the animals and plants that inhabited British Columbia during prehistoric times.
Author : Douglas H. Erwin
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231074662
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (31 download)
Download or read book The Great Paleozoic Crisis written by Douglas H. Erwin and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The culmination of more than fifty years of research by the foremost living expert on plant classification, Diversity and Classification of Flowering Plants is an important contribution to the field of plant taxonomy. In the last decade, the system of classifying plants has been thoroughly revised. Instead of describing every individual family, Takhtajan includes descriptions in keys to families, which he calls "descriptive keys." The advantage of descriptive keys is that they give both the characteristic features of the families and their differences. The delimitation of families and orders drastically differs from the one accepted by the Englerian school and from the one accepted in Arthur Cronquist's system. Takhtajan favors the smaller, more natural families and orders, which are more coherent and better-defined, where characters are easily grasped, and which are more suitable for information retrieval and phylogenetic studies, including cladistic analysis (because it reduces polymorphic codings).
Author : Nicholas C. Fraser
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Dawn of the Dinosaurs written by Nicholas C. Fraser and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science and art collaborate to recreate life on Earth more than 200 million years ago
Author : Tim Haines
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781554071814
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (718 download)
Download or read book The Complete Guide to Prehistoric Life written by Tim Haines and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Text and digitally-created illustrations cover more than one hundred of the earliest beasts with profiles on their physical characteristics, habitat, behavior, and distribution across prehistoric Earth.
Author : Pascal Godefroit
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253005701
Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)
Download or read book Bernissart Dinosaurs and Early Cretaceous Terrestrial Ecosystems written by Pascal Godefroit and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2012-07-05 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1878, the first complete dinosaur skeleton was discovered in a coal mine in Bernissart, Belgium. Iguanodon, first described by Gideon Mantell on the basis of fragments discovered in England in 1824, was initially reconstructed as an iguana-like reptile or a heavily built, horned quadruped. However, the Bernissart skeleton changed all that. The animal was displayed in an upright posture similar to a kangaroo, and later with its tail off the ground like the dinosaur we know of today. Focusing on the Bernissant discoveries, this book presents the latest research on Iguanodon and other denizens of the Cretaceous ecosystems of Europe, Asia, and Africa. Pascal Godefroit and contributors consider the Bernissart locality itself and the new research programs that are underway there. The book also presents a systematic revision of Iguanodon; new material from Spain, Romania, China, and Kazakhstan; studies of other Early Cretaceous terrestrial ecosystems; and examinations of Cretaceous vertebrate faunas.
Author : Michael J. Benton
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
ISBN 13 : 0500773203
Total Pages : 487 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (7 download)
Download or read book When Life Nearly Died: The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time (Revised edition) written by Michael J. Benton and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 2015-08-11 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The focus is the most severe mass extinction known in earth’s history. The science on which the book is based is up-to-date, thorough, and balanced. Highly recommended.” —Choice Today it is common knowledge that the dinosaurs were wiped out by a meteorite impact 65 million years ago that killed half of all species then living. It is far less widely understood that a much greater catastrophe took place at the end of the Permian period 251 million years ago: at least ninety percent of life on earth was destroyed. When Life Nearly Died documents not only what happened during this gigantic mass extinction but also the recent renewal of the idea of catastrophism: the theory that changes in the earth’s crust were brought about suddenly in the past by phenomena that cannot be observed today. Was the end-Permian event caused by the impact of a huge meteorite or comet, or by prolonged volcanic eruption in Siberia? The evidence has been accumulating, and Michael J. Benton gives his verdict at the end of the volume. The new edition brings the study of the greatest mass extinction of all time thoroughly up-to-date. In the twelve years since the book was originally published, hundreds of geologists and paleontologists have been investigating all aspects of how life could be driven to the brink of annihilation, and especially how life recovered afterwards, providing the foundations of modern ecosystems.
