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Record Nr.

UNINA9910793867403321

Autore

Ostrom John H.

Titolo

Osteology of Deinonychus antirrhopus, an Unusual Theropod from the Lower Cretaceous of Montana : 50th Anniversary Edition / / John H. Ostrom

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Haven, CT : , : Yale University Press, , [2019]

©2019

ISBN

1-933789-40-9

Edizione

[Fiftieth anniversary edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (196 pages)

Altri autori (Persone)

GauthierJacques A

Disciplina

567.912

Soggetti

Deinonychus antirrhopus

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- FIGURES -- TABLES -- FOREWORD -- ABSTRACT -- ZUSAMMENFASSUNG -- PE3IOME -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. STRATIGRAPHIC AND LOCALITY DATA -- 3. SYSTEMATICS -- 4. GENERAL DESCRIPTION -- 5. HABITS OF DEINONYCHUS -- 6. AFFINITIES OF DEINONYCHUS -- ADDENDUM -- LITERATURE CITED -- A NEW THEROPOD DINOSAUR FROM THE LOWER CRETACEOUS OF MONTANA

Sommario/riassunto

John H. Ostrom's expeditions to the Bighorn Basin of Wyoming and Montana in the 1960s resulted in discoveries and research that would change long-held concepts in paleontology. This fiftieth-anniversary edition of his now well-known description of the type specimen of Deinonychus antirrhopus revisits the work that redefined theropod dinosaurs as the intelligent, agile, and gregarious ancestors of modern birds and led in the late twentieth century to a renaissance in the study of dinosaurs and the evolution of flight.