Buch, Englisch, 328 Seiten, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 667 g
Buch, Englisch, 328 Seiten, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 667 g
ISBN: 978-1-4214-0027-3
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press
The authors bring together the latest information on the fauna, flora, geology, and paleogeography of the region, casting these ancient reptiles in their phylogenetic, paleoecological, and evolutionary contexts. What the authors find is that Transylvanian dinosaurs experienced a range of unpredictable successes as they evolved.
Woven throughout the detailed history and science of these diminutive dinosaurs is the fascinating story of the man who first discovered them, the mysterious twentieth-century paleontologist Franz Baron Nopcsa, whose name is synonymous with Transylvanian dinosaurs. Hailed by some as the father of paleobiology, it was Nopcsa alone who understood the importance of the dinosaur discoveries in Transylvania; their story cannot be told without recounting his.
Transylvanian Dinosaurs strikes an engaging balance between biography and scientific treatise and is sure to capture the imagination of professional paleontologists and amateur dinophiles alike.
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1. Bringing It All Back Home
2. Dinosauria of Transylvania
3. Pterosaurs, Crocs, and Mammals, Oh My
4. Living on the Edge
5. Little Giants and Big Dwarfs
6. Living Fossils and Their Ghosts: Being a Short Interlude on Coelacanths and Transylvanian Ornithopods
7. Transylvania, the Land of Contingency
8. Alice and the End
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