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What bugged the dinosaurs? : insects, disease, and death in the Cretaceous / George Poinar, Jr. and Roberta Poinar ; with photographs and drawings by the authors.
LIBRA QE720 .P647 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Poinar, George O.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Paleoecology--Cenozoic.
- Paleoecology.
- Dinosaurs--Diseases.
- Dinosaurs.
- Insects, Fossil.
- Insects--Ecology.
- Insects.
- Diseases.
- Physical Description:
- x, 264 pages, 16 pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2008]
- Summary:
- This is an excellent book. There is no doubt Poinar and Poinar have admirable track records, and they are well known for their sustained and high-quality work on fossil insects, and especially on insects in amber."--Michael J. Benton, author of "When Life Nearly Died: The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time"
- "Interesting and engaging. This book presents evidence that insects interacted as prey, as competitors for plant food, and as vectors of dinosaur diseases. It develops the intriguing and plausible hypothesis that insects contributed to the extinction of dinosaurs."--Timothy D. Schowalter, author of "Insect Ecology: An Ecosystem Approach
- Contents:
- 1 Fossils: A Time Capsule 7
- 2 The Cretaceous: A Time of Change 17
- 3 Herbivory 37
- 4 Dinosaurs Competing with Insects 50
- 5 Did Dinosaurs or Insects "Invent" Flowering Plants? 55
- 6 Pollination 57
- 7 Blights and Diseases of Cretaceous Plants 63
- 8 The Cretaceous: Age of Chimeras and Other Oddities 72
- 9 Sanitary Engineers of the Cretaceous 79
- 10 The Case for Entomophagy among Dinosaurs 91
- 11 Gorging on Dinosaurs 102
- 12 Biting Midges 110
- 13 Sand Flies 116
- 14 Mosquitoes 122
- 15 Blackflies 127
- 16 Horseflies and Deerflies 131
- 17 Fleas and Lice 135
- 18 Ticks and Mites 141
- 19 Parasitic Worms 147
- 20 The Discovery of Cretaceous Diseases 157
- 21 Diseases and the Evolution of Pathogens 171
- 22 Insects: The Ultimate Survivors 185
- 23 Extinctions and the K/T Boundary 192
- Appendix A Cretaceous Hexapoda 203
- Appendix B Key Factors Contributing to the Survival of Terrestrial Animals 219
- Appendix C Problems with Evaluating the Fossil Record and Extinctions 221.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [225]-252) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780691124315
- 0691124310
- OCLC:
- 80361470
- Online:
- Publisher description
- Contributor biographical information
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