Tyrannosaurus rex, the tyrant king / edited by Peter Larson and Kenneth Carpenter.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Larson, Peter L.

Carpenter, Kenneth, 1949-

Series:

Life of the past

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tyrannosaurus rex--Research.

Tyrannosaurus rex.

Research.

Physical Description:

xvi, 435 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm + 1 CD-ROM (color ; 4 3/4 in.)

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2008]

System Details:

System requirements for accompanying CD-ROM: "This disk is playable in any CD-ROM drive."

Summary:

Accompanying CD-ROM ... "contains material relating to three of the chapters in the volume. The material on the supplemental CD-ROM is intended to further illustrate the chapter contents and is not a recreation in CD-ROM form of the book itself."--P. ix.

Contents:

One hundred years of Tyrannosaurus rex : the skeletons / Neal L. Larson

Wyoming's Dynamosaurus imperiosus and other early discoveries of Tyrannosaurus rex in the Rocky Mountain West / Brent H. Breithaupt, Elizabeth H. Southwell, and Neffra A. Matthews

How old Is T. rex? : challenges with the dating of terrestrial strata deposited during the Maastrichtian stage of the Cretaceous period / Kirk Johnson

Preliminary account of the tyrannosaurid Pete from the Lance Formation of Wyoming / Kraig Derstler and John M. Myers

Taphonomy of the Tyrannosaurus rex Peck's Rex from the Hell Creek Formation of Montana / Kraig Derstler and John M. Myers

Taphonomy and environment of deposition of a juvenile tyrannosaurid skeleton from the Hell Creek Formation (latest Maastrichtian) of southeastern Montana / Michael D. Henderson and William H. Harrison

One pretty amazing T. rex / Mary Higby Schweitzer, Jennifer L. Wittmeyer, and John R. Horner

Variation and sexual dimorphism in Tyrannosaurus rex / Peter Larson

Why Tyrannosaurus rex had puny arms : an integral morphodynamic solution to a simple puzzle in theropod paleobiology / Martin Lockley, Reiji Kukihara, and Laura Mitchell

Looking again at the forelimb of Tyrannosaurus rex / Christine Lipkin and Kenneth Carpenter

Rex, sit : digital modeling of Tyrannosaurus rex at rest / Kent A. Stevens ... [et al.]

T. rex speed trap / Phillip L. Manning

Atlas of the skull bones of Tyrannosaurus rex / Peter Larson

Palatal kinesis of Tyrannosaurus rex / Hans C.E. Larsson

Reconstruction of the jaw musculature of Tyrannosaurus rex / Ralph E. Molnar

Vestigialism in a dinosaur / William L. Abler

Tyrannosaurid pathologies as clues to nature and nurture in the Cretaceous / Bruce M. Rothschild and Ralph E. Molnar

The extreme lifestyles and habits of the gigantic tyrannosaurid superpredators of the late Cretaceous of North America and Asia / Gregory S. Paul

An analysis of predator-prey behavior in a head-to-head encounter between Tyrannosaurus rex and Triceratops / John Happ

A critical reappraisal of the obligate scavenging hypothesis for Tyrannosaurus rex and other tyrant dinosaurs / Thomas R. Holtz Jr.

Tyrannosaurus rex : a century of celebrity / Donald F. Glut.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780253350879

0253350875

OCLC:

177008862