The tyrannosaur chronicles the biology of the tyrant dinosaurs
In the mid-nineteenth century, many dinosaur fossils were found in the United States, especially during the 1870s and 1880s "Bone Wars." Paleontologists Edward Drinker Cope and Othniel Charles Marsh discovered dozens of skeletons, but in 1905, fossil hunter Barnum Brown named the first tyrannosaur k...
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London, UK :
Bloomsbury Sigma,
2016.
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Table of Contents:
- The game of the name
- A brief primer on tyrannosaur bony anatomy
- Introduction. Introducing the dinosaurs ; What is a tyrannosaur? ; Tyrannosaur species ; Tyrannosaur relationships ; Tyrants in time and space
- Morphology. Skull ; Body ; Limbs ; Outside ; Physiology ; Changes
- Ecology. Reproduction and growth ; Prey ; Competitors ; Obtaining food ; Behaviour and ecology
- Moving forwards. Tyrannosaurus fact and fiction ; The future ; Conclusions.
