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Glorified dinosaurs : the origin and early evolution of birds
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Glorified dinosaurs : the origin and early evolution of birds / Louis M. Chiappe.
ISBN
0471247235 (cloth)
Published
Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley, 2006.
Physical Description
ix, 192 p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Notes
Includes index.
Format
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 06, 2007
Contents
Mesozoic birds and their world
The ancestry of birds and the origin of flight
The bizarre Mononykus and its kin : an evolutionary experiment
Archaeopteryx : the earliest bird
Rahonavis and other long-tailed birds
The first short-tailed birds
The great Mesozoic radiation : the flying Enantiornithes
Early predecessors of modern birds
Hesperornis and its relatives : divers of the cretaceous seas
The beginnings of modern birds.
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