Dinosaurs: The Most Complete, Up-to-Date Encyclopedia for Dinosaur Lovers of All Ages

Dinosaurs: The Most Complete, Up-to-Date Encyclopedia for Dinosaur
Dinosaur
Dinosaurs are a diverse group of animals of the clade and superorder Dinosauria. They were the dominant terrestrial vertebrates for over 160 million years, from the late Triassic period until the end of the Cretaceous , when the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event led to the extinction of...

Lovers of All Ages is a book by Dr. Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. & Luis Rey

Luis Rey

Luis V. Rey is a Spanish-Mexican artist and illustrator, a 1977 graduate of the San Carlos Academy, . He is best known for his innovative work in the field of dinosaur paleoart, for example in conjunction with Robert T. Bakker, promoting awareness of the developing evidence for feathered dinosaurs...

. It was published in 2007 by Random House

Random House

Random House, Inc. is the largest general-interest trade book publisher in the world. It has been owned since 1998 by the German private media corporation Bertelsmann and has become the umbrella brand for Bertelsmann book publishing. Random House also has a movie production arm, Random House Films,...

Introduction. The world of dinosaurs
Chapter 1. History of dinosaur
Dinosaur
Dinosaurs are a diverse group of animals of the clade and superorder Dinosauria. They were the dominant terrestrial vertebrates for over 160 million years, from the late Triassic period until the end of the Cretaceous , when the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event led to the extinction of...

discoveries
Chapter 2. Rocks and environment
Chapter 3. Fossils and fossilization
Chapter 4. Geologic time: how old is that dinosaur, and how do we know?
Chapter 5. From the field to the museum: finding fossils
Chapter 6. Bringing dinosaurs to life: the science of dinosaur art
Chapter 7. Taxonomy: why do dinosaurs have such strange names?
Chapter 8. Evolution: descent with modification
Chapter 9. Cladistics: figuring out the dinosaur family
Family
In human context, a family is a group of people affiliated by consanguinity, affinity, or co-residence. In most societies it is the principal institution for the socialization of children...

tree
Chapter 10. Evolution of the vertebrates
Chapter 11. The origin of dinosaurs
Chapter 12. Saurischians (lizard-hipped dinosaurs)
Chapter 13. Coelophysoids and Ceratosaurs (primitive meat-eating dinosaurs)
Chapter 14. Spinosauroids (megalosaurs and the fin-backed fish-eating dinosaurs)
Chapter 15. Carnosaurs (giant meat-eating dinosaurs)
Chapter 16. Primitive Coelurosaurs (the first fluffy dinosaurs)
Chapter 17. Tyrannosauroids (tyrant dinosaurs)
Chapter 18. Ornithomimosaurs and Alvarezsaurs (ostrich and thumb-clawed dinosaurs)
Chapter 19. Oviraptorosaurs and Therizinosauroids (egg-thief and sloth dinosaurs)
Chapter 20. Deinonychosaurs (raptor dinosaurs)
Chapter 21. Avialians (birds)
Chapter 22. Prosauropods (primitive long-necked plant-eating dinosaurs)
Chapter 23. Primitive Sauropods (early giant long-necked dinosaurs)
Chapter 24. Diplodocoids (whip-tailed giant long-necked dinosaurs)
Chapter 25. Macronarians (big-nosed giant long-necked dinosaurs)
Chapter 26. Ornithischians (bird-hipped dinosaurs)
Chapter 27. Primitive Thyreophorans (early armored dinosaurs)
Chapter 28. Stegosaurs (plated dinosaurs)
Chapter 29. Ankylosaurs (tank dinosaurs)
Chapter 30. Primitive Ornithopods (primitive beaked dinosaurs)
Chapter 31. Iguanodontians (advanced beaked dinosaurs)
Chapter 32. Hadrosaurids (duckbilled dinosaurs)
Chapter 33. Pachycephalosaurs (domeheaded dinosaurs)
Chapter 34. Primitive Ceratopsians (parrot and frilled dinosaurs)
Chapter 35. Ceratopsids (horned dinosaurs)
Chapter 36. Dinosaur eggs and babies
Chapter 37. Dinosaur behavior: how did dinosaurs act, and how do we know?
Chapter 38. Dinosaur biology: living, breathing dinosaurs
Chapter 39. Life in the Triassic
Triassic
The Triassic is a geologic period and system that extends from about 250 to 200 Mya . As the first period of the Mesozoic Era, the Triassic follows the Permian and is followed by the Jurassic. Both the start and end of the Triassic are marked by major extinction events...

Period
Chapter 40. Life in the Jurassic
Jurassic
The Jurassic is a geologic period and system that extends from about Mya to Mya, that is, from the end of the Triassic to the beginning of the Cretaceous. The Jurassic constitutes the middle period of the Mesozoic era, also known as the age of reptiles. The start of the period is marked by...

Period
Chapter 41. Life in the Cretaceous
Cretaceous
The Cretaceous , derived from the Latin "creta" , usually abbreviated K for its German translation Kreide , is a geologic period and system from circa to million years ago. In the geologic timescale, the Cretaceous follows the Jurassic period and is followed by the Paleogene period of the...

Period
Chapter 42. Extinctions: the world of the dinosaurs ends

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