Dinosaur Systematics: Approaches and PerspectivesKenneth Carpenter, Philip J. Currie In recent years dinosaurs have captured the attention of the public at an unprecedented level. At the heart of this resurgence in popular interest is an increased level of research activity, much of which is innovative in the field of paleontology. For instance, whereas earlier paleontological studies emphasized basic morphologic description and taxonomic classification, modern studies attempt to examine the role and nature of dinosaurs as living animals. More than ever before, we understand how these extinct species functioned, behaved, interacted with each other and the environment, and evolved. Nevertheless, these studies rely on certain basic building blocks of knowledge, including facts about dinosaur anatomy and taxonomic relationships. One of the purposes of this volume is to unravel some of the problems surrounding dinosaur systematics and to increase our understanding of dinosaurs as a biological species. Dinosaur Systematics presents a current overview of dinosaur systematics using various examples to explore what is a species in a dinosaur, what separates genders in dinosaurs, what morphological changes occur with maturation of a species, and what morphological variations occur within a species. |
Contents
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II | 7 |
III | 9 |
IV | 9 |
V | 9 |
VI | 9 |
VII | 21 |
VIII | 42 |
XX | 179 |
XXI | 187 |
XXII | 189 |
XXIII | 201 |
XXIV | 203 |
XXVI | 211 |
XXVIII | 231 |
XXIX | 245 |
IX | 43 |
X | 53 |
XII | 69 |
XIII | 81 |
XIV | 91 |
XV | 107 |
XVI | 127 |
XVII | 141 |
XVIII | 145 |
XIX | 163 |
XXX | 254 |
XXXI | 268 |
XXXII | 269 |
XXXIV | 281 |
XXXV | 298 |
XXXVI | 299 |
XXXVII | 309 |
XXXVIII | 315 |
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Alberta American Museum AMNH analysis Baryonyx bones Camptosaurus carina caudal Centrosaurus ceratopsian cervical characters Chasmosaurus cladistic classification Coelophysis cranial Cretaceous Currie dentary dentary teeth denticles differences Dinosaur Systematics distal Dodson dome dorsal Edmontonia femur fenestrae Figure fossil Galton genera genus Geological Gilmore hadrosaurids hadrosaurs holotype horn horncores Huene humerus Hypsilophodon Iguanodon iguanodontids ilium individual ischium Journal Judith River Formation Jurassic juvenile lambeosaurine landmarks lateral length lingual Maryańska material maxilla maxillary medial Monoclonius Montana morphology morphometric Museum of Natural nasal Natural History neural spines ontogenetic Ornithischia ornithopods Osmólska Ouranosaurus pachycephalosaurid Palaeoscincus Paleontology Panoplosaurus parietal phylogenetic phylogeny Plateosaurus plates posterior premaxillary Protoceratops Psittacosaurus referred relatively RFTRA robust rugosidens sacral sauropod saurus Sereno sexual dimorphism skeleton skull species squamosal Stegoceras stegosaurs Sternberg synapomorphies Syntarsus taxa taxon taxonomic Tenontosaurus theropod tion tooth Triceratops Troodon tyrannosaurids UCMP Upper USNM variability variation ventral Vertebrate Weishampel width
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Page 306 - IV. 1845. An attempt to name, classify, and describe, the animals that made the fossil footmarks of New England.