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Informationen zum Autor edited by Kenneth Carpenter Klappentext Kenneth Carpenter is the dinosaur paleontologist for the Denver Museum of Natural History. He is author of Eggs, Nests, and Baby Dinosaurs (IUP, 2000), editor of The Armored Dinosaurs (IUP, 2001), and co-editor of Mesozoic Vertebrate Life (with Darren H. Tanke, IUP, 2001). He is also co-editor of Dinosaur Systematics; Dinosaur Eggs and Babies; and The Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation. Zusammenfassung The meat-eating dinosaurs, or Theropoda, include some of the fiercest predators that ever lived. Organized into three parts, this book explores morphological details that are important for understanding theropod systematics. It also focuses on specific regions of theropod anatomy and biomechanics, and examines theropods as living creatures. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contributors Acknowledgments Introduction I. Theropods Old and New 1. Tibiae of Small Theropod Dinosaurs from Southern England: From the Middle Jurassic of Stonesfield near Oxford and the Lower Cretaceous of the Isle of WightPeter M. Galton and Ralph E. Molnar 2. New Small Theropod from the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation of WyomingKenneth Carpenter, Clifford Miles, and Karen Cloward 3. Redescription of the Small Maniraptoran Theropods Ornitholestes and Coelurus from the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation of WyomingKenneth Carpenter, Clifford Miles, John H. Ostrom, and Karen Cloward 4. The Enigmatic Theropod Dinosaur Erectopus superbus (Sauvage 1882) from the Lower Albian of Louppy-le-Château (Meuse, France)Ronan Allain 5. Holotype Braincase of Nothronychus mckinleyi Kirkland and Wolfe 2001 (Theropoda; Therizinosauridae) from the Upper Cretaceous (Turonian) of West-Central New MexicoJames I. Kirkland, David K. Smith, and Douglas G. Wolfe 6. Anatomy of Harpymimus okladnikovi Barsbold and Perle 1984 (Dinosauria; Theropoda) of MongoliaYoshitsugu Kobayashi and Rinchen Barsbold 7. Theropod Teeth from the Upper Cretaceous (Campanian-Maastrichtian), Big Bend National Park, TexasJulia T. Sankey, Barbara R. Standhardt, and Judith A. Schiebout 8. Last Patagonian Non-Avian TheropodsRodolfo A. Coria and Leonardo Salgado II. Theropod Working Parts 9. Enamel Microstructure Variation within the TheropodaKathy Stokosa 10. Bite Me: Biomechanical Models of Theropod Mandibles and Implications for Feeding BehaviorFrançois Therrien, Donald M. Henderson, and Christopher B. Ruff 11. Body and Tail Posture in Theropod DinosaursGregory S. Paul 12. Furcula of Tyrannosaurus rexPeter Larson and J. Keith Rigby Jr. 13. The Pectoral Girdle and the Forelimb of Heyuannia (Dinosauria: Oviraptorosauria)Junchang Lü, Dong Huang, and Licheng Qiu III. Theropods as Living Animals 14. Sexual Dimorphism in the Early Jurassic Theropod Dinosaur Dilophosaurus and a Comparison with Other Related FormsRobert Gay 15. Sexual Selection and Sexual Dimorphism in TheropodsRalph E. Molnar 16. An Unusual Multi-Individual Tyrannosaurid Bonebed in the Two Medicine Formation (Late Cretaceous, Campanian) of Montana (USA)Philip J. Currie, David Trexler, Eva B. Koppelhus, Kelly Wicks, and Nate Murphy 17. Evidence for Predator-Prey Relationships: Examples for Allosaurus and StegosaurusKenneth Carpenter, Frank Sanders, Lorrie A. McWhinney, and Lowell Wood 18. Theropod Paleopathology: State-of-the-Art ReviewBruce Rothschild and Darren H. Tanke Index ...
