An edition of Dinosaurs
(1947)
DINOSAURS
THEIR DISCOVERY AND THEIR WORLD
FOURTH PRINTING
by Edwin Harris Colbert
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DINOSAURS: THEIR DISCOVERY AND THEIR WORLD
1964, E.P. DUTTON & CO., INC.
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First Sentence
"One hundred million years ago the continents were inhabited by numerous and varied reptiles which today we call dinosaurs."
Table of Contents
1.
Some necessary preliminairies
Page 1
THERE WERE DINOSAUS.
1
GEOLOGIC TIME.
2
THE GEOLOGIC CALENDAR.
4
THE AGE OF DINOSAURS.
5
ROCKS AND FOSSILS.
6
THE TREE OF LIFE.
9
VERTEBRATES.
10
REPTILES.
13
DINOSAURS.
15
2.
Dinosaurs and Victorians
Page 19
DINOSAURS ARE DISCOVERED.
19
DINOSAURIA.
22
OWEN, HAWKINS AND Iguanodon.
23
LEIDY, HAWKINS AND Hadrosaurus.
25
DINOSAUR TRACKS IN THE CONNECTICUT VALLEY.
28
PROFESSOR MARSH AND PROFESSOR COPE.
29
3.
The twentieth century
Page 35
THE LEGACY OF THE INNOVATORS.
35
INTO THE FIELD FOR DINOSAURS.
38
IN THE LABORATORY.
41
RESEARCH AND PUBLICATION.
44
IN THE MUSEUM HALL.
46
MEN AND MUSEUMS.
48
4.
Advent of the dinosaurs
Page 53
DINOSAUR ANCESTORS.
53
Coelophysis, AN EARLY COELUROSAURIAN DINOSAUR.
61
THE FIRST CARNOSAURS.
67
PROSAUROPODS, TRIASSIC GIANTS.
70
A SUMMING UP.
71
5.
Meat-eating dinosaurs
Page 73
THE THREEFOLD DEVELOPMENT OF THEROPOD DINOSAURS.
73
THE PERSISTENTLY PRIMITIVE COELUROSAURS.
75
THE OSTRICH DINOSAURS.
77
GIANT HUNTERS.
79
6.
Greatest of the giants
Page 85
A BIT OF HISTORY.
85
ON BEING A GIANT.
91
THE VARIETY OF THE SAUROPODS.
104
7.
Iguanodonts and such
Page 107
ANCESTRAL ORNITHISCHIANS.
107
Iguanodon.
114
THE DOME-HEADED DINOSAURS.
115
8.
Duck-billed dinosaurs
Page 117
Hadrosaurus AND Claosaurus.
117
THE HADROSAURIAN PATTERN.
119
THE FLAT-HEADED HADOSAURS.
127
THE CRESTED HADROSAURS.
129
SIGHT AND HEARING.
136
THE SUM OF THE EVIDENCE.
139
9.
Plated dinosaurs
Page 141
THE OLDEST ORNITHISCHIAN.
141
MORE HISTORY.
143
Stegosaurus.
144
THE WIDE EXTENT OF THE STEGOSAURS.
149
THE EARLY EXTINCTION OF THE STEGOSAURS.
151
10.
Armored dinosaurs
Page 153
THE NATURE OF THE ANKYLOSAURS.
153
EARLY ARMORED DINOSAURS.
156
A VARIETY OF NODOSAURS.
158
THE ROLE OF THE ARMORED DINOSAURS.
160
11.
Horned dinosaurs
Page 163
THE FIRST DISCOVERIES.
163
CERATOPSIAN ANCESTORS.
165
THE FIRST CERATOPSIANS.
167
GIANT HORNED DINOSAURS.
172
SOME PROBLEMS.
175
12.
Tracks
Page 181
THE MAKING OF TRACKS.
181
THE NAMING OF TRACKS.
183
THE CONNECTICUT VALLEY TRACKS.
185
THE GLEN ROSE TRACKS.
187
TRACKS FROM HERE AND THERE.
190
13. Brains, brawn and temperatures.
195
BRAINS AND ENDOCRANIAL CASTS.
195
BRAINS AND BODIES.
196
THE LOWLY DINOSAURIAN BRAIN.
198
BEHIND THE BRAIN.
200
THE SLOW DINOSAURS.
203
TEMPERATURES.
204
DIETS OF THE DINOSAURS.
208
GIANTS OF THE MESOZOIC.
208
14.
Eggs, embryos and juveniles
Page 209
DISCOVERIES OF DINOSAUR EGGS.
209
THE VARIETY AND STRUCTURE OF THE EGGS.
214
NESTS.
216
EMBRYOS - OR VICTIMS OF CANNIBALISM?.
217
EGGS AND GROWTH.
218
JUVENILE DINOSAURS.
221
QUESTIONS FOR THE FUTURE.
223
15.
Ages and environments of the dinosaurs
Page 225
WHAT IS ENVIRONMENT?.
225
FACTORS OF DINOSAURIAN ENVIRONMENTS.
226
DINOSAURS AND CLIMATES.
229
DINOSAURS IN THE TRIASSIC WORLD.
230
DINOSAURS IN THE JURRASIC WORLD.
233
DINOSAURS IN THE CRETACEOUS WORLD.
237
16.
The extinction of the dinosaurs
Page 249
THE PROBLEM OF EXTINCTION.
249
SOME THEORIES CONCERNING THE EXTINCTION OF DINOSAURS.
252
THE FINAL YEARS.
257
FINAL THOUGHTS.
259
17.
A classification
Page 261
SOME GENERAL REMARKS.
261
THE HIERARCHY.
262
THE NAMING OF FOSSILS.
264
CLASSIFICATION OF THE DINOSAURS.
265
THE LARGER UNITS.
266
THE GENERA.
268
GENERA OF UPPER TRIASSIC DINOSAURS.
268
GENERA OF LOWER JURASSIC DINOSAURS.
269
GENERA OF MIDDLE AND UPPER JURASSIC DINOSAURS.
270
GENERA OF LOWER CRETACEOUS DINOSAURS.
271
GENERAL OF UPPER CRETACEOUS DINOSAURS.
272
18. Bones and books.
275
WHERE TO SEE DINOSAURS.
275
SOME BOOKS.
278
FOR THOSE WHO WOULD DELVE MORE DEEPLY.
280
AUTHORS.
281
BIBLIOGRAPHIES OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY.
281
CREDITS FOR PLATES.
282
CREDITS FOR FIGURES.
283
INDEX.
287
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