Dinosaur Eggs and Babies

Cambridge University Press
Edition: Revised ed., 3/7/1996
EAN 9780521567237, ISBN10: 0521567238

Paperback, 392 pages, 25.4 x 17.8 x 2.3 cm
Language: English

In the last couple of decades the study of dinosaur eggs and babies has proved to be one of the most exciting and profitable areas of dinosaur research. This is the first book solely devoted to this topic and reviews, in scientific detail, our present state of knowledge about this exciting area of palaeontology. Chapters in the book discuss all aspects of the science including the occurrence of eggs, nests and baby skeletons, descriptive osteology of juvenile skeletons, comparative histology of juvenile bone, analyses of eggs and egg shells, palaeoenvironments of nesting sites, nesting behaviour and developmental growth of baby dinosaurs. The volume will be an invaluable addition to the book collections of vertebrate palaeontologists and their graduate students.

Foreword
tribute to Robert Makela J. R. Horner
Preface
List of institutional abbreviations
Introduction K. Carpenter, K. F. Hirsch, and J. R. Horner
Part I. Distribution and History of Collecting
1. Global distribution of dinosaur eggs, nests and baby skeletons K. Carpenter, and K. Alf
2. The discovery of dinosaur eggshells in nineteenth century France E. Buffetaut, and J. Le Loeuff
Part II. Nests
3. Dinosaur nesting patterns J. Moratalla, and J. Powell
4. Dinosaurian eggs from the Upper Cretaceous of Uruguay G. Faccio
5. Dinosaur egg laying and nesting in France R. Cousin, G. Breton, R. Fournier, and J-P. Watte
6. Late Maastrichtian dinosaur eggs from the Hateg Basin D. Grigorescu, D. Weishampel, D. Norman, M. Seclamen, M. Rusus, A. Baltres, and V. Teodorescu
7. Eggs and nests from the Cretaceous of Mongolia K. Mikhailov, K. Sabath, and S. Kurzanov
8. Comparative taphonomy of some dinosaur and extant bird colonial nesting grounds J. R. Horner
9. Predation of dinosaur nests by terrestrial crocodiles J. Kirkland
Part III. Eggs
10. Upper Jurassic eggshells from the western interior of North America K. F. Hirsch
11. Review of French dinosaur eggshells
eggshell morphology, structure, mineral and organic composition M. Vianey-Liaud, P. Mallan, O. Buscail, and C. Montgelard
12. Dinosaur eggs in China
on the structure and evolution of eggshells Z. Zi-Kui
13. Upper Cretaceous dinosaur eggs and nesting sites from the Deccan volcano-sedimentary province of peninsula India A. Sahni, S. K. Tandon, A. Jolly, S. Bajpai, A. Sood, and S. Srinivasan
Part IV. Dinosaur Babies
14. Life history syndromes, heterochrony, and the evolution of Dinosauria D. Weishampel, and J. R. Horner
15. Dinosaur reproduction in the fast lane
implication for size, success and extinction G. Paul
16. An embryonic Camarasaurus from the Upper Jurassic Morrison formation B. Britt, and B. Naylor
17. Upper Jurassic sauropod babies from the Morrison formation K. Carpenter, and J. McIntosh
18. Thermal travails of ornithopod nestings
implications for endothermy and insulation G. Paul
19. A baby Dryosaurus from the Upper Jurassic Morrison formation of Dinosaur National Monument K. Carpenter
20. An embryo of Camptosaurus from the Brushy Basin Member D. Chure, C. Turner, and F. Peterson
21. Ontogenetic growth of a new species of Hypacrosaurus J. R. Horner, and P. Currie
22. A nodosaurid scuteling from the Texas shore of the Western Interior Seaway L. Jacobs, D. Winkler, P. Murray, and J. Maurice
23. Dinosaur ontogeny and population structure
interpretations based on fossil footprints from North America M. Lockley
24. Summary and prospectus K. Carpenter, K. F. Hirsch, and J. R. Horner
Taxonomic Index.