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Hadrosaurs (Life of the Past) Kindle Edition

by David A. Eberth (Author, Editor), David C. Evans (Editor), Andrey Atuchin (Contributor), Format: Kindle Edition
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A comprehensive study of the Late Cretaceous, duck-billed dinosaur, featuring insights on its origins, anatomy, and more.

Hadrosaurs—also known as duck-billed dinosaurs—are abundant in the fossil record. With their unique complex jaws and teeth perfectly suited to shred and chew plants, they flourished on Earth in remarkable diversity during the Late Cretaceous. So ubiquitous are their remains that we have learned more about dinosaurian paleobiology and paleoecology from hadrosaurs than we have from any other group. In recent years, hadrosaurs have been in the spotlight. Researchers around the world have been studying new specimens and new taxa seeking to expand and clarify our knowledge of these marvelous beasts. This volume presents the results of an international symposium on hadrosaurs, sponsored by the Royal Tyrrell Museum and the Royal Ontario Museum, where scientists and students gathered to share their research and their passion for duck-billed dinosaurs. A uniquely comprehensive treatment of hadrosaurs, the book encompasses not only the well-known hadrosaurids proper, but also Hadrosaouroidea, allowing the former group to be evaluated in a broader perspective. The 36 chapters are divided into six sections—an overview, new insights into hadrosaur origins, hadrosaurid anatomy and variation, biogeography and biostratigraphy, function and growth, and preservation, tracks, and traces—followed by an afterword by Jack Horner.

“Well designed, handsome and fantastically well edited (credit there to Patricia Ralrick), congratulations are deserved to the editors for pulling together a vast amount of content, and doing it well. The book contains a huge quantity of information on these dinosaurs.” —Darren Naish, co-author of Tetrapod Zoology, Scientific American

“Hadrosaurs have not had the wide publicity of their flesh-eating cousins, the theropods, but this remarkable dinosaur group offers unique opportunities to explore aspects of palaeobiology such as growth and sexual dimorphism. In a comprehensive collection of papers, all the hadrosaur experts of the world present their latest work, exploring topics as diverse as taxonomy and stratigraphy, locomotion and skin colour.” —Michael Benton, University of Bristol
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Hadrosaurs have not had the wide publicity of their flesh-eating cousins, the theropods, but this remarkable dinosaur group offers unique opportunities to explore aspects of palaeobiology such as growth and sexual dimorphism. In a comprehensive collection of papers, all the hadrosaur experts of the world present their latest work, exploring topics as diverse as taxonomy and stratigraphy, locomotion and skin colour.

-- Michael Benton ― University of Bristol

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00R5O79Q2
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Indiana University Press; Illustrated edition (November 5, 2014)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ November 5, 2014
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 42377 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
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  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 1533 pages
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Frank McCourt (1930-2009) was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Irish immigrant parents, grew up in Limerick, Ireland, and returned to America in 1949. For thirty years he taught in New York City high schools. His first book, "Angela's Ashes," won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award and the L.A. Times Book Award. In 2006, he won the prestigious Ellis Island Family Heritage Award for Exemplary Service in the Field of the Arts and the United Federation of Teachers John Dewey Award for Excellence in Education.

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Nathan Parker
5.0 out of 5 stars A must for serious dinosaur enthusiasts
Reviewed in the United States on June 11, 2016
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An excellent collection of papers on all aspects of hadrosauroid biology. Not for the novice - this is technical literature, and you either need to already know the difference between a quadrate and an ethmoid, an apomorphy and a convergence, or the Maastrichtian and the Campanian, or else be willing to constantly look up terms. But well worth it if you are seriously interested in dinosaurs. There is a helpful foreward by David Weishampel to get you oriented.

Paleoartists will be articularly interested in papers on fossilized hadrosaur skin and other soft tissue, and inferences about posture and motion, as well as the osteological descriptions.
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Ashley Orabona
5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect condition
Reviewed in the United States on December 31, 2020
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Great price perfect condition fast shipping
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Rosemary
5.0 out of 5 stars Hadrosaurs Rule!
Reviewed in the United States on April 17, 2017
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Big fan of Dr. Eberth. Great to have papers of this symposium published.
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Ruth Harrison
5.0 out of 5 stars He has said that it is excellent and very inspiring for him
Reviewed in the United States on January 7, 2015
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i purchased this for my son who is a paleontologist. He has said that it is excellent and very inspiring for him.
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Lenita from Chicago
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United States on January 11, 2015
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I ordered this for my 14 year old. He really enjoys it.
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Bart Levitt
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Reviewed in the United States on March 10, 2015
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Best dinosaur textbook I have read to date.
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L. W.
5.0 out of 5 stars Mandatory
Reviewed in Canada on June 26, 2023
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Another book that is mandatory in academia and for paleo nerds alike! I would recommend, however, Amazon charged me an arm and a leg for… but I gotta have all of these books.
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MissJones
4.0 out of 5 stars Perfect, but only for the right people.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 15, 2014
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This is a wonderful book if you're a paleontologist, or someone with a very advanced interest in the science and specifics of Hadrosaur bone fragments, but it's definitely not a wise choice for anyone who doesn't understand scientific language or for someone expecting a Hadrosaur encyclopedia complete with colour illustrations and photographs. Apart from the dust cover and hard cover (which are beautiful, the paleoart on the dust cover is gorgeous and the hardcover has a dinosaur skin texture which looks and feels amazing), all other images are black and white and are for the most part sketchy photographs of bone fragments. I would consider myself as someone with above average interest in Paleontology and certainly in Hadrosaurs, but I'm actually in the process of returning this book as it's not what I was hoping for, I didn't realise it would be quite so advanced- it's too scientific even for me. I'm still looking for a Hadrosaur specific book with colour illustrations that relays all the details in a non-uber-scientific way.
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rod bartlett
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Reviewed in Canada on July 15, 2016
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A great reference book, I'm glad to fińd something Hadrosaur specific.
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