Jurassic West, Second Edition
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Jurassic West, Second Edition

The Dinosaurs of the Morrison Formation and Their World

  1. 560 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Jurassic West, Second Edition

The Dinosaurs of the Morrison Formation and Their World

About this book

The famous bone beds of the Morrison Formation, formed one hundred and fifty million years ago and running from Wyoming down through the red rock region of the American Southwest, have yielded one of the most complete pictures of any ancient vertebrate ecosystem in the world. Jurassic West, Second Edition tells the story of the life of this ancient world as scientists have so far been able to reconstruct it.

Aimed at the general reader, Jurassic West, Second Edition recounts the discovery of many important Late Jurassic dinosaurs such as Apatosaurus, Allosaurus, and Stegosaurus. But dinosaurs compose barely a third of the more than 90 types of vertebrates known from the formation, which include crocodiles and turtles, frogs and salamanders, dinosaurs and mammals, clams and snails, and ginkgoes, ferns, and conifers.

Featuring nearly all new illustrations, the second edition of this classic work includes new taxa named since 2007, updates to the naming and classifications of some old taxa, and expanded sections on numerous aspects of Morrison Formation paleontology and geology.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Foreword
  7. Preface
  8. Preface to the Second Edition
  9. Acknowledgments
  10. List of Abbreviations
  11. 1 Rainbow Country: An Introduction to Morrison Formation Geology
  12. 2 Setting the Stage: Vertebrates and the Jurassic World
  13. 3 The Start of It All: The Morrison Vertebrates Come to Light
  14. 4 Renaissance: The Picture Fills In
  15. 5 Fins, Scales, and Wings: The Morrison Menagerie, Part I
  16. 6 Gargantuan to Minuscule: The Morrison Menagerie, Part II
  17. 7 The Mess and the Magic: Vertebrate Paleoecology of the Morrison Formation
  18. 8 Many Rivers to Cross: A Late Jurassic Journey across the Morrison Floodplain
  19. Epilogue: The Morrison Fauna in World Context
  20. Appendix A
  21. Appendix B
  22. Glossary
  23. Notes
  24. References
  25. Index