Beast Companions
eBook - ePub

Beast Companions

The Unsung Animals of the Dinosaurs' World

  1. 258 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Beast Companions

The Unsung Animals of the Dinosaurs' World

About this book

Despite their fame and reputation, dinosaurs represent only half the story of the Mesozoic Era. In Beast Companions: The Unsung Animals of the Dinosaurs' World, paleontologist John Foster explores the often-overlooked animals that coexisted with them. These ancient species, often equally remarkable as their dinosaur neighbors, can provide valuable insights into the biotic history of our planet. In some cases, these animals reveal just as much, if not more, about the extinct ecosystems of the time as the dinosaurs themselves.

By drawing on a wealth of current and past discoveries, Foster embarks on a sweeping journey across 164 million years to visit the beast companions of the dinosaurs. Along the way, he examines fish, insects, the first frogs and salamanders, turtles, snakes and lizards, marine reptiles, crocodiles, pterosaurs, birds, mammals, and other animals of the Mesozoic Era.

Beast Companions is a groundbreaking exploration of the story of these contemporaries of the dinosaurs that set the modern world in motion more than 200 million years ago

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Preface
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Institutional Abbreviations
  9. 1. Shadows in the Rain Beginnings
  10. 2. A Critical Mass Invertebrates
  11. 3. Sweet Delta Dawn Fish
  12. 4. Smooth Amphibians Frogs, Salamanders, and Cohorts
  13. 5. Mysteries Dark and Vast Turtles
  14. 6. Beak-Heads Ancestry of the Tuatara
  15. 7. Celebration of the Lizard (and Snake) Squamata
  16. 8. In the Realm of Poseidons Marine Reptiles
  17. 9. Age of the Comb Jaws Choristodera
  18. 10. Something Shocking Crocodile Rocks
  19. 11. Wing Fingers Pterosaurs
  20. 12. Feathered Dinosaurian Friends Birds
  21. 13. Copycatted Mammals and Synapsids
  22. 14. Epilogue A Bump in the Road and Beyond
  23. Selected Bibliography
  24. Index
  25. About the Author