| Description |
ix, 263 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 29 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 252-255) and index. |
| 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. |
| Subject |
Birds, Fossil.
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Birds, Fossil. |
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Birds -- Evolution.
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Birds -- Evolution. |
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Paleontology -- Mesozoic.
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Paleontology. |
| Chronological Term |
Mesozoic |
| ISBN |
0471247235 cloth |
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9780471247234 cloth |
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