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Dinosauria Owen 1842

Dinosaurs including birds

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Containing group: Archosauria

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References

Benton, M. J. 1998. Dinosaur fossils with soft parts. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 13:303-304.

Carpenter, K. and P. J. Currie, eds. 1990. Dinosaur Systematics: Perspectives and Approaches. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

Carpenter, K., K. F. Hirsch, and J. R. Horner, eds. 1994. Dinosaur Eggs and Babies. Cambridge University Press, New York.

Chiappe, L. M. and L. Dingus. 2001. Walking on Eggs: The Astonishing Discovery of Thousands of Dinosaur Eggs in the Badlands of Patagonia. Scribner, New York.

Currie, P. J. and K. Padian, eds. 1997. Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs. Academic Press, New York.

Dingus, L. and T. Rowe. 1998. The Mistaken Extinction: Dinosaur Extinction and the Origin of Birds. W. H. Freeman, New York.

Farlow, J. O. and M. K. Brett-Surman, eds. 1997. The Complete Dinosaur. Indiana University Press, Bloomington.

Fastovsky, D. E. and D. B. Weishampel. 1996. The Evolution and Extinction of the Dinosaurs. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, New York.

Lloyd, G. T., K. E. Davis, D. Pisani, J. E. Tarver, M. Ruta, M. Sakamoto, D. W. E. Hone, R. Jennings, and M. J. Benton. 2008. Dinosaurs and the Cretaceous terrestrial revolution. Proceedings: Biological Sciences 275 (1650):2483-2490. doi:10.1098/rspb.2008.0715

Norell, M. A., L. Dingus, and E. S. Gaffney. 2000. Discovering Dinosaurs: Evolution, Extinction, and the Lessons of Prehistory. University of California Press, Berkeley, Calif.

Norman, D. B. 1985. The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs. Salamander Books, London.

Novacek, M. J. and E. Heck. 1996. Dinosaurs of the Flaming Cliffs. Anchor Books, New York.

Pisani, D., A. M. Yates, M. C. Langer, and M. J. Benton. 2002. A genus-level supertree of the Dinosauria. Proceedings of the Royal Society London B 269:915-921.

Sereno, P. C. 1997. The origin and evolution of dinosaurs. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences 25:435-489.

Sereno, P.C. 1998. A rationale for phylogenetic definitions, with application to the higher-level taxonomy of dinosauria. Neues Jahrbuch fur Geologie und Palaontologyie, Abhuandlungen 210(1): 41-83.

Sereno, P. C. 1999. The evolution of dinosaurs. Science 284:2137-2147.

Weishampel, D. B., P. Dodson, and H. Osmolska, eds. 1990. The Dinosauria. University of California Press, Berkeley.

Information on the Internet

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Scientific Name Tyrannosaurus rex
Location Royal Tyrell Museum, Drumheller, Alberta, Canada
Specimen Condition Model
Body Part head
Source Dinosaur roaming in Alberta
Source Collection Flickr
Image Use creative commons This media file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License - Version 2.0.
Copyright © 2002 Frank Maurer
white or fairy terns hovering
Scientific Name Gygis alba
Location Sand Island at Midway Atoll, Northwestern Hawaiian Islands
Comments white or fairy terns hovering
Acknowledgements http://flickr.com/photos/kenai
Specimen Condition Live Specimen
Behavior in flight
View ventral
Collection Flickr at http://www.flickr.com/photos/kenai
Image Use creative commons This media file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License - Version 2.0.
Copyright © 2006 Caleb Slemmons
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