The Macmillan Illustrated Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Animals: A Visual Who's who of Prehistoric LifeThis lavishly illustrated reference provides a trip through our evolutionary past, as it covers more than 600 extinct species--from predatory dinosaurs, primitive amphibians, and giant armored fish to sabertooths, cave bears, and flying reptiles--all depicted in specially commissioned full-color paintings, based the latest paleontological information. |
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The Macmillan Illustrated Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Animals ... Dougal Dixon No preview available - 1988 |
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adapted Africa amphibians ancestors animals Apatosaurus aquatic Archaeopteryx armor Asia backbone birds body bones canines Carboniferous carnivores carnosaur cheek teeth claws cm long creature crest crocodiles developed Devonian diapsid dinosaurs duckbills elephants elongated Eocene Europe England evolution evolutionary evolved extinct Family feet fins fossil front ft/3 m long hadrosaurs head herbivorous hips hypsilophodonts ichthyosaurs Iguanodon in/2 m long incisors land Late Cretaceous Late Cretaceous LOCALITY Late Jurassic LOCALITY Late Miocene Late Permian Late Triassic legs lifestyle limbs lived lizards lower jaw mammals million years ago Miocene modern muscles NAME neck North America North America Alberta Oligocene ORDER pair Paleocene paleontologists pelycosaurs Permian Permian LOCALITY plant-eating plants plates Pleistocene Pleistocene LOCALITY plesiosaurs Pliocene predators prey primitive probably pterosaurs relatives reptiles rocks rodents sauropods sharks similar skeleton skull snout species spines Stegosaurus structure SUBORDER tail therapsids toes Triassic LOCALITY tusks typical vertebrae