Dinosaurs: A Visual EncyclopediaThis latest edition in a range of super successful DK encyclopedias for children features hundreds of photographs and computer generated images bringing extinct animals back to life in this visual celebration of early life on Earth. Authoritative yet accessible, the book includes fact boxes, timelines, maps, and diagrams that explore the beginnings of life on Earth, investigates early eras and life forms, and examines the world of the dinosaurs…their homes, food, young, and family lives. With content that is completely up to date and includes the latest discoveries and interpretations of prehistoric life, this is a comprehensive exploration of dinosaurs during their 180 million plus years of existence. Supports the Common Core State Standards. |
Contents
FOREWORD 5 | 5 |
PREHISTORIC LIFE 6 | 6 |
How life began 8 | 8 |
Evolution 10 | 10 |
Timeline of life 12 | 12 |
Changing planet 14 | 14 |
All about fossils 16 | 16 |
Dinosaur National Monument 18 | 19 |
Sauropods and relatives 150 | 150 |
Inside a dinosaur 152 | 152 |
Isanosaurus 154 | 155 |
Diplodocoids 156 | 156 |
Barosaurus 158 | 159 |
Building a dinosaur 160 | 160 |
Titanosaurs 162 | 162 |
Dinosaur tracks 164 | 164 |
Fossil hunting 20 | 20 |
A look at size 22 | 22 |
INVERTEBRATES 24 | 24 |
What are invertebrates? 26 | 26 |
The first animals 28 | 28 |
Cambrian Explosion 30 | 30 |
Opabinia 32 | 32 |
Marrella 34 | 34 |
Trilobites 36 | 36 |
Selenopeltis 38 | 38 |
Echinoderms 40 | 40 |
Brittle stars 42 | 42 |
Spiders and scorpions 44 | 44 |
Giant millipede 46 | 46 |
Insects 48 | 48 |
Butterfly 50 | 50 |
Fossilized in amber 52 | 52 |
Meganeura 54 | 54 |
Ammonites 56 | 56 |
Fossil gems 58 | 58 |
Fossil seashells 60 | 60 |
EARLY VERTEBRATES 62 | 62 |
What are vertebrates? 64 | 64 |
Jawless fish 66 | 66 |
Armored fish 68 | 68 |
Sharks and rays 70 | 70 |
Megatooth shark 72 | 72 |
Bony fish 74 | 74 |
Lepidotes 76 | 76 |
Lobefinned fish 78 | 78 |
Conquering land 80 | 80 |
Amphibians 82 | 82 |
Amphibamus 84 | 84 |
Early plants 86 | 86 |
Postosuchus 88 | 88 |
Effigia 90 | 90 |
Crocodylomorphs 92 | 92 |
Pterosaurs 94 | 94 |
Eudimorphodon 96 | 96 |
Nothosaurs 98 | 98 |
Plesiosaurs 100 | 100 |
The Loch Ness monster 102 | 102 |
Rhomaleosaurus 104 | 104 |
Ichthyosaurs 106 | 106 |
Stenopterygius 108 | 108 |
A young fossil hunter 110 | 110 |
Mosasaurs 112 | 112 |
DINOSAURS AND BIRDS 114 | 114 |
Killer jaws 116 | 116 |
What are dinosaurs? 118 | 118 |
Small ornithischians 120 | 120 |
Pachycephalosaurus 122 | 122 |
Ceratopsians 124 | 124 |
Triceratops 126 | 126 |
Iguanodontians 128 | 128 |
Hadrosaurids 130 | 130 |
Dinosaur droppings 132 | 132 |
Corythosaurus 134 | 134 |
Edmontosaurus 136 | 136 |
Scelidosaurus 138 | 138 |
Stegosaurs 140 | 140 |
Kentrosaurus 142 | 142 |
Ankylosaurs 144 | 144 |
Euoplocephalus 146 | 146 |
Prosauropods 148 | 148 |
Theropods 166 | 166 |
Eoraptor 168 | 168 |
Coelophysis 170 | 170 |
Dubreuillosaurus 172 | 172 |
Spinosaurids 174 | 174 |
Suchomimus 176 | 176 |
Allosaurus 178 | 178 |
Tyrannosauroids 180 | 180 |
Tyrannosaurus 182 | 182 |
Compsognathids 184 | 184 |
Ornithomimids 186 | 186 |
Animatronic dinosaurs 188 | 188 |
Oviraptorosaurs 190 | 190 |
Dinosaur eggs 192 | 192 |
Therizinosaurs 194 | 194 |
Dromaeosaurs 196 | 196 |
Fight to the death 198 | 198 |
Microraptor 200 | 200 |
Sinornithosaurus 202 | 202 |
Troodon 204 | 204 |
Death of the dinosaurs 206 | 206 |
Early birds 208 | 208 |
Late birds 210 | 210 |
Gastornis 212 | 212 |
MAMMALS 214 | 214 |
What are mammals? 216 | 216 |
Pelycosaurs 218 | 218 |
Therapsids 220 | 220 |
The first mammals 222 | 222 |
Flowering plants 224 | 224 |
Marsupials 226 | 226 |
Thylacine 228 | 228 |
Insecteaters and relatives 230 | 230 |
Icaronycteris 232 | 232 |
Cats and hyenas 234 | 234 |
Ice age 236 | 236 |
Caniforms 238 | 238 |
A sticky end 240 | 240 |
Rabbits and rodents 242 | 242 |
Hoofed mammals 244 | 244 |
Leptomeryx 246 | 246 |
Macrauchenia 248 | 248 |
Horses 250 | 250 |
Chalicotherium 252 | 252 |
Rhinoceroses 254 | 254 |
Ashfall fossil beds 256 | 256 |
Elephants and relatives 258 | 258 |
Woolly mammoth 260 | 260 |
Lyuba the baby mammoth 262 | 262 |
Megatherium 264 | 264 |
Deer giraffes and camels 266 | 266 |
Aurochs 268 | 268 |
Cave paintings 270 | 270 |
Andrewsarchus 272 | 272 |
Whales in the making 274 | 274 |
Primates 276 | 276 |
Australopithecus 278 | 278 |
Homo erectus 280 | 280 |
Neanderthals 282 | 282 |
Myths and legends 284 | 284 |
Modern humans 286 | 286 |
Bushman rock art 288 | 289 |
GLOSSARY AND INDEX 290 | 290 |
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145 Cretaceous 65 4.6 billion 65 million Africa ago Early Cretaceous ago Late Cretaceous ago Middle ago Neogene ago Paleogene America Habitat armor beak BIRDS DINOSAURS body bones bony Carboniferous carnivorous claws Coelophysis creatures Cretaceous Period Devonian Diet Fish Diet Plants DINOSAURS AND BIRDS Dromaeosaurs EARLY VERTEBRATES Edmontosaurus eggs elephant Eoraptor evolved FACT FILE Key FAMILY FACT FILE feathers FILE Key features Fossil location Fossil location Europe Fossil location USA giant Habitat Habitat Oceans Length Habitat Woodlands Length hadrosaurids head horns huge hunted insects INVERTEBRATES jaws Jurassic 145 Cretaceous Late Cretaceous Length 3 ft lizards location USA Habitat mammals million years ago modern mouth Neogene Ordovician Ornithomimids Paleogene Permian plant-eating plesiosaurs Precambrian predators prehistoric prey probably pterosaurs reptiles sauropods scientists think seafloor shark shell Silurian skeleton skin skull snout species spines Spinosaurids tail teeth Theropods tiny Titanosaurs trees Triassic 200 Jurassic Troodon Tyrannosaurus walked whale