Dinosaurs of the East Coast / David B. Weishampel and Luther Young.

Author
Weishampel, David B., 1952- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.
Description
xiii, 275 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.

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    • In Dinosaurs of the East Coast David Weishampel and Luther Young restore East Coast dinosaurs to their rightful place on the paleontological map. They describe such dinosaurs as the plant-eating Astrodon johnstoni, similar to the Brachiosaurus, which browsed in a tropical Maryland jungle 100 million years ago. Other East Coast dinosaurs included a distant relative of Astrodon, Anchisaurus polyzelus, which lived in New England some 200 million years ago. And the remains of Hadrosaurus foulkii, a duck-billed dinosaur that lived in New Jersey some 70 million years ago, represented North America's first well-preserved dinosaur skeleton.
    • The authors also show that dinosaur fossil-hunting has not only had a long history along the Atlantic coast but also is very much alive there today. Some dinosaur fossils have come from the bog iron and clay pits of Maryland and New Jersey, while others have been discovered in the riverbanks of North and South Carolina. Dinosaur footprint sites have been found from central Virginia to the Bay of Fundy in Nova Scotia.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-265) and index.
    Contents
    • Dinosauria
    • An evolving world
    • The Mesozoic East Coast
    • The pioneers
    • Dinosaurs of the late Triassic
    • Dinosaurs of the Early Jurassic
    • Dinosaurs of the Early Cretaceous
    • Dinosaurs of the Late Cretaceous
    • The modern seekers.
    ISBN
    • 0801852161 ((alk. paper))
    • 9780801852169 ((alk. paper))
    • 080185217X ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
    • 9780801852176 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
    LCCN
    95024816
    OCLC
    32922300
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