Dinosaurs & Other Animals of the Jurassic - Paperback

by Sunil Tanna (Author)

The third in a series of five books, this book tells the history of life in the middle of the Mesozoic Era during the Jurassic Period, which was 201 and 145 million years ago. In this period, dinosaurs walked the Earth, the seas were populated by ichthyosaurs, plesiosaurs and marine crocodiles, and the skies were filled with pterosaurs and the first primitive birds.

In this beautiful full-color illustrated book, you will learn about:

• And much more
• The paleogeography of the Jurassic- how the continents were positioned and moved
• The climate of the Jurassic
• The flora of the Jurassic
• Marine life of the Triassic including plankton, marine invertebrates, fish and marine reptiles such ichthyosaurs, plesiosaurs and thalattosuchians
• Terrestrial life of the Triassic including insects, spiders, lungfish, amphibians, turtles, lepidosaurs, therapsids (mammals and mammal-like reptiles), pterosaurs, crocodilans, dinosaurs and birds
• And much more

Table of Contents:

Introduction

Chapter 1: Before the Jurassic Period
The Formation of the Solar System and the Earth
The Hadean Eon
The Archaean Eon
The Proterozoic Eon
The Phanerozoic Eon
- The Paleozoic Era
- The End of the Paleozoic Era
- The Mesozoic Era - The Triassic Period

Chapter 2: Introducing the Jurassic Period
Subdivisions (Epochs) of the Jurassic Period
- Early Jurassic Epoch
- Middle Jurassic Epoch
- Late Jurassic Epoch

Chapter 3: Paleogeography of the Jurassic Period

Chapter 4: Climate of the Jurassic Period

Chapter 5: Flora of the Jurassic Period

Chapter 6: Marine Fauna of the Jurassic Period
Plankton
Marine Invertebrates
Fish
Sauropterygians, Plesiosaurs and Pliosaurs
Turtles
Ichthyosaurs
Thalattosuchians
Pleurosaurids

Chapter 7: Terrestrial and Freshwater Fauna of the Jurassic Period
Insects
Spiders
Lungfish
Amphibians
Turtles
Lepidosauromorpha
- Pantestudines
- Kuehneosauridae
- Rhynchocephalia
- Squamata
Therapsids and Mammals
Archosaurs
- Pterosaurs
- Crocodylomorpha
- Dinosaurs and Birds

Chapter 8: Dinosaurs and Birds of the Jurassic Period
Saurischia and Ornithischia
Theropods
- Coelophysids
- Dilophosaurids
- Cryolophosaurus
- Ceratosaurids
- Abelisaurids
- Noasaurids
- Megalosaurids
- Spinosaurids
- Piatnitzkysaurids
- Gasosaurus and Kaijiangosaurus
- Monolophosaurus
- Allosaurids
- Metriacanthosaurids
- Carcharodontosaurids
- Coelurids
- Compsognathids
- Tyrannosauroidea
- Maniraptoriformes, Maniraptorans and Birds
- Archaeoteryx and the Origin of Birds
- Ornitholestes
Sauropodomorpha and Sauropods
- Basal Sauropodomorphs (Anchisaurs and Massospondylids)
- Basal Sauropods (Vulcanodontids)
- Shunosaurus
- Diplodocids
- Dicraeosaurids
- Rebbachisaurids
- Haplocanthosaurus
- Brachiosaurids
- Camarasaurids
- Cetiosaurids
- Mamenchisaurids
Ornithischians
- Basal Ornithischians (including Heterodontosaurids)
- Lesothosaurus
- Basal Thyreophora
- Stegosauria
- Ankylosauria
- Basal Neornithischia
- Ornithopoda
- Ceratopsia
- Pachycephalosauria

Chapter 9: Extinction Events of the Jurassic Period
Triassic Jurassic Extinction Event
The Pliensbachian Toarcian Extinction Event
The End Jurassic Extinction Event

Chapter 10: After the Jurassic
The Cretaceous Period
The Cenozoic Era