Dinosaurs and Other Extinct Saurians: A Historical Perspective, Special Publication 343

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Название: Dinosaurs and Other Extinct Saurians: A Historical Perspective, Special Publication 343

Автор: R. T. J. Moody, E. Buffetaut

Издательство: Geological Society

Год: 2010

Страниц 352

ISBN: 1862393117

Формат: PDF

Размер: 25 MB

Язык Английский

The discovery of dinosaurs and other large extinct saurians - a term under which the Victorians commonly lumped ichthyosaurs, plesiosaurs, pterosaurs and their kin - makes exciting reading and has caught the attention of palaeontologists, historians of science and the general public alike. The papers in this collection go beyond the familiar tales about famous fossil hunters and focus on relatively little-known episodes in the discovery and interpretation (from both a scientific and an artistic point of view) of dinosaurs and other inhabitants of the Mesozoic world. They cover a long time span, from the beginnings of modern scientific palaeontology in the 1700s to the present, and deal with many parts of the world, from the Yorkshire coast to Central India, from Bavaria to the Sahara. The characters in these stories include professional palaeontologists and geologists (some of them well-known, others quite obscure), explorers, amateur fossil collectors, and artists, linked together by their interest in Mesozoic creatures.