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Informationen zum Autor John Foster is a paleontologist at the Utah Field House of Natural History State Park Museum in Vernal, Utah. He has conducted fieldwork and research in the Morrison Formation throughout the Rocky Mountain region for 30 years, starting while a graduate student at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology and the University of Colorado, Boulder. He previously worked as executive director of the Moab Museum in Moab, Utah, and curator of paleontology at the Museums of Western Colorado in Fruita, Colorado. He is also author of Cambrian Ocean World: Ancient Sea Life of North America. Klappentext -Best popular overview of the dinosaurs from the Jurassic Era discovered in the American West. -First Edition was award-winning, critically acclaimed, and sold over 3,000 copies. -2nd Edition is thoroughly revised and contains over 100 new illustrations. Zusammenfassung Aimed at the general reader, Jurassic West, Second Edition recounts the discovery of many important Late Jurassic dinosaurs made at the famous bone beds of the Morrison Formation. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword by Dale Russell Preface Preface to the Second Edition Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations 1 Rainbow Country: An Introduction to Morrison Formation Geology 2 Setting the Stage: Vertebrates and the Jurassic World 3 The Start of it All: The Morrison Vertebrates Come to Light 4 Renaissance: The Picture Fills In 5 Fins, Scales, and Wings: The Morrison Menagerie, Part I 6 Gargantuan to Minuscule: The Morrison Menagerie, Part II 7 The Mess and the Magic: Vertebrate Paleoecology of the Morrison Formation 8 Many Rivers to Cross: A Late Jurassic Journey across the Morrison Floodplain Epilogue: The Morrison Fauna in World Context Appendix A Appendix B Glossary Notes References Index
