What bugged the dinosaurs?: insects, disease, and death in the Cretaceous [Libro electrónico] / George Poinar Jr., Roberta Poinar
Por: Poinar Jr., George [autor/a].
Poinar, Roberta [autor/a].
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en línea Editor: Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, c2008Descripción: x, 264 páginas : ilustraciones mapas ; 24 centímetros.ISBN: 0691124310; 9780691124315; 9781400835690.Tema(s): Cretaceous | Paleontología
| Insects, Fossil | Dinosaurios | Parásitos | ÁmbarNota de acceso: Disponible para usuarios de ECOSUR con su clave de acceso Nota de bibliografía: Incluye bibliografía e índice: páginas 225-252 Número de sistema: 54818Contenidos:Mostrar
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Preface.. Acknowledgments.. Introduction.. Chapter 1: Fossils: A time capsule.. Chapter 2: The cretaceous: a time of change.. Chapter 3: Herbivory.. Chapter 4: Dinosaurs competing with insects.. Chapter 5: Did dinosaurs or insects "invent" flowering plants?.. Chapter 6: Pollination.. Chapter 7: Blights and diseases of cretaceous plants.. Chapter 8: The cretaceous: age of chimeras and other oddities.. Chapter 9: Sanitary engineers of the cretaceous.. Chapter 10: The case for entomophagy among dinosaurs.. Chapter 11: Gorging on dinosaurs.. Chapter 12: Biting midges.. Chapter 13: Sand flies.. Chapter 14: Mosquitoes.. Chapter 15: Blackflies.. Chapter 16: Horseflies and deerflies.. Chapter 17: Fleas and lice.. Chapter 18: Ticks and mites.. Chapter 19: Parasitic worms.. Chapter 20: The discovery of cretaceous diseases.. Chapter 21: Diseases and the evolution of pathogens.. Chapter 22: Insects: The ultimate survivors.. Chapter 23: Extinctions and the K/T boundary.. Appendix A: Cretaceous hexapoda.. Appendix B: Key factors contributing to the survival of terrestrial animals.. Appendix C: Problems with evaluating the fossil record and extinctions.. References.. Index
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Millions of years ago in the Cretaceous period, the mighty Tyrannosaurus rex--with its dagger-like teeth for tearing its prey to ribbons--was undoubtedly the fiercest carnivore to roam the Earth. Yet asWhat Bugged the Dinosaurs?reveals, T. rex was not the only killer. George and Roberta Poinar show how insects--from biting sand flies to disease-causing parasites--dominated life on the planet and played a significant role in the life and death of the dinosaurs. The Poinars bring the age of the dinosaurs marvelously to life. Analyzing exotic insects fossilized in Cretaceous amber at three major deposits in Lebanon, Burma, and Canada, they reconstruct the complex ecology of a hostile prehistoric world inhabited by voracious swarms of insects. The Poinars draw upon tantalizing new evidence from their amazing discoveries of disease-producing vertebrate pathogens in Cretaceous blood-sucking flies, as well as intestinal worms and protozoa found in fossilized dinosaur excrement, to provide a unique view of how insects infected with malaria, leishmania, and other pathogens, together with intestinal parasites, could have devastated dinosaur populations. A scientific adventure story from the authors whose research inspiredJurassic Park,What Bugged the Dinosaurs?? offers compelling evidence of how insects directly and indirectly contributed to the dinosaurs' demise. eng
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