Jurassic West, Second Edition
Title | Jurassic West, Second Edition PDF eBook |
Author | John Foster |
Publisher | Indiana University Press |
Pages | 559 |
Release | 2020-10-20 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 0253051584 |
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.
Depositional History of Jurassic Rocks in the Area of the Powder River Basin, Northeastern Wyoming and Southeastern Montana
Title | Depositional History of Jurassic Rocks in the Area of the Powder River Basin, Northeastern Wyoming and Southeastern Montana PDF eBook |
Author | Edward Allison Johnson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 56 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | Geology, Stratigraphic |
ISBN |
Oil and Gas Resources of the West Siberian Basin, Russia
Title | Oil and Gas Resources of the West Siberian Basin, Russia PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 234 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Natural gas |
ISBN |
Paleontology and Geology of the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation
Title | Paleontology and Geology of the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation PDF eBook |
Author | John R. Foster |
Publisher | New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science |
Pages | 257 |
Release | 2006-01-01 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN |
The Second Jurassic Dinosaur Rush
Title | The Second Jurassic Dinosaur Rush PDF eBook |
Author | Paul D. Brinkman |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 361 |
Release | 2010-07-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0226074730 |
The so-called “Bone Wars” of the 1880s, which pitted Edward Drinker Cope against Othniel Charles Marsh in a frenzy of fossil collection and discovery, may have marked the introduction of dinosaurs to the American public, but the second Jurassic dinosaur rush, which took place around the turn of the twentieth century, brought the prehistoric beasts back to life. These later expeditions—which involved new competitors hailing from leading natural history museums in New York, Chicago, and Pittsburgh—yielded specimens that would be reconstructed into the colossal skeletons that thrill visitors today in museum halls across the country. Reconsidering the fossil speculation, the museum displays, and the media frenzy that ushered dinosaurs into the American public consciousness, Paul Brinkman takes us back to the birth of dinomania, the modern obsession with all things Jurassic. Featuring engaging and colorful personalities and motivations both altruistic and ignoble, The Second Jurassic Dinosaur Rush shows that these later expeditions were just as foundational—if not more so—to the establishment of paleontology and the budding collections of museums than the more famous Cope and Marsh treks. With adventure, intrigue, and rivalry, this is science at its most swashbuckling.
Jurassic West
Title | Jurassic West PDF eBook |
Author | John Foster |
Publisher | |
Pages | 440 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN |
The incredible story of the dinosaurs and other animals that lived in the American West 150 million years ago
Geologic Evolution of the Mojave Desert and Southwestern Basin and Range
Title | Geologic Evolution of the Mojave Desert and Southwestern Basin and Range PDF eBook |
Author | Allen F. Glazner |
Publisher | Geological Society of America |
Pages | 380 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 9780813711959 |
CD-ROM contains: Electronic version of text -- Maps.