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