Poinar / Jr. What Bugged the Dinosaurs?

Insects, Disease, and Death in the Cretaceous
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-3569-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 280 Seiten

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Poinar, George

Jr., George Poinar

Poinar, Roberta

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geologie Paläontologie, Taphonomie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften, Biologie: Sachbuch, Naturführer
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geographie: Sachbuch, Reise
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Ökologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface ix

Acknowledgments xi

Introduction 1

Chapter 1: Fossils: A Time Capsule 7

Chapter 2: The Cretaceous: A Time of Change 17

Chapter 3: Herbivory 37

Chapter 4: Dinosaurs Competing with Insects 50

Chapter 5: Did Dinosaurs or Insects "Invent" Flowering Plants? 55

Chapter 6: Pollination 57

Chapter 7: Blights and Diseases of Cretaceous Plants 63

Chapter 8: The Cretaceous: Age of Chimeras and Other Oddities 72

Chapter 9: Sanitary Engineers of the Cretaceous 79

Chapter 10: The Case for Entomophagy among Dinosaurs 91

Chapter 11: Gorging on Dinosaurs 102

Chapter 12: Biting Midges 110

Chapter 13: Sand Flies 116

Chapter 14: Mosquitoes 122

Chapter 15: Blackflies 127

Chapter 16: Horseflies and Deerflies 131

Chapter 17: Fleas and Lice 135

Chapter 18: Ticks and Mites 141

Chapter 19: Parasitic Worms 147

Chapter 20: The Discovery of Cretaceous Diseases 157

Chapter 21: Diseases and the Evolution of Pathogens 171

Chapter 22: Insects: The Ultimate Survivors 185

Chapter 23: Extinctions and the K/T Boundary 192

APPENDIX A: Cretaceous Hexapoda 203

APPENDIX B: Key Factors Contributing to the Survival of Terrestrial Animals 219

APPENDIX C: Problems with Evaluating the Fossil Record and Extinctions 221

References 225

Index 253

Über Autor(innen)

George Poinar, Jr., is currently in the Zoology Department at Oregon State University. He is well known internationally in various fields, including paleobiology, nematology, and insect pathology. He became familiar with tropical diseases while serving as a consultant for the United Nations and World Health Organization. Roberta Poinar is a retired research scientist. They are the coauthors of The Amber Forest: A Reconstruction of a Vanished World (Princeton) and The Quest for Life in Amber. Their research has been featured in leading publications worldwide and on television programs such as Nova.