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Life of the Past

The Sauropodomorph Dinosaurs

By: Virginia Tidwell (Editor), Kenneth Carpenter (Editor)

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Hardcover | 1 August 2005

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The large quadrupedal herbivores known as sauropods roamed the planet from the Jurassic to the end of the Cretaceous. With the longest necks and tails of all of the dinosaurs, some sauropods were 40 meters in length and weighed upwards of 100,000 kilograms. The popular image of these lumbering giants, placidly consuming ferns, has been greatly revised in recent years by new discoveries and new theories about behavior and physiology. This book presents 21 new studies of the sauropods. The volume is organized into four parts. Part I looks at some sauropods old and new, Part II at juvenile and adult specimens and ontogenetic variation within species. Part III concerns morphology and biomechanics, while Part IV takes up issues of biogeography. The contributors are Sebastian Apesteguia, Malcolm W. Bedell, Jr., David S. Berman, Matthew F. Bonnan, Kenneth Carpenter, Sankar Chatterjee, Rodolfo A. Coria, Fabio M. Dalla Vecchia, John R. Foster, Peter M. Galton, Jacques van Heerden, Takehito Ikejiri, Jean Le Loeuff, D. M. Mohabey, Ralph E. Molnar, John S. McIntosh, J. Michael Parrish, Bruce M. Rothschild, Leonardo Salgado, Steven W. Salisbury, Allen Shaw, Kenneth Stadtman, Kent A.Stevens, Virginia Tidwell, David L. Trexler, D. Ray Wilhite, Adam M. Yates, and Zhong Zheng. Virginia Tidwell is a paleontologist in the Earth Science Lab at the Denver Museum of Natural History. Kenneth Carpenter is the dinosaur paleontologist for the Denver Museum of Natural History. His books include Eggs, Nests, and Baby Dinosaurs (IUP, 2000).

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Postcranial anatomy of referred specimens of the sauropodomorph dinosaur Melanorosaurus from the Upper Triassic of South Africa	p. 1
The genus Barosaurus marsh (sauropoda, diplodocidae)	p. 38
Reassessment of the early Cretaceous sauropod Astrodon johnsoni leidy 1865 (Titanosauriformes)	p. 78
Osteology of Ampelosaurus atacis (titanosauria) from southern France	p. 115
New juvenile sauropod material from western Colorado, and the record of juvenile sauropods from the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation	p. 141
New adult specimens of Camarasaurus lentus highlight ontogenetic variation within the species	p. 154
Age-related characteristics found in a partial pelvis of Camarasaurus	p. 180
Ontogenetic variation and isometric growth in the forelimb of the early Cretaceous sauropod Venenosaurus	p. 187
Neuroanatomy and dentition of Camarasaurus lentus	p. 199
Neck posture, dentition, and feeding strategies in Jurassic sauropod dinosaurs	p. 212
Neck posture of sauropods determined using radiological imaging to reveal three-dimensional structure of cervical vertebrae	p. 233
Evolution of the hyposphene-hypantrum complex within sauropoda	p. 248
Variation in the appendicular skeleton of North American sauropod dinosaurs : taxonomic implications	p. 268
First articulated manus of Diplodocus carnegii	p. 302
Evolution of the titanosaur metacarpus	p. 321
Pes anatomy in sauropod dinosaurs : implications for functional morphology, evolution, and phylogeny	p. 346
Sauropod stress fractures as clues to activity	p. 381
Between Gondwana and Laurasia : Cretaceous sauropods in an intraoceanic carbonate platform	p. 395
Sauropods of Patagonia : systematic update and notes on global sauropod evolution	p. 430
Observations on Cretaceous sauropods from Australia	p. 454
Late Cretaceous (maastrichtian) nests, eggs, and dung mass (coprolites) of sauropods (titanosaurs) from India	p. 466
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