An Alternate Selection of the Discovery Channel Book Club
Contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction
I. Theropods Old and New
1. Tibiae of Small Theropod Dinosaurs from Southern England: From
the Middle Jurassic of Stonesfield near Oxford and the Lower
Cretaceous of the Isle of Wight Peter M. Galton and Ralph E.
Molnar
2. New Small Theropod from the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation of
Wyoming Kenneth Carpenter, Clifford Miles, and Karen Cloward
3. Redescription of the Small Maniraptoran Theropods Ornitholestes
and Coelurus from the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation of Wyoming
Kenneth Carpenter, Clifford Miles, John H. Ostrom, and Karen
Cloward
4. The Enigmatic Theropod Dinosaur Erectopus superbus (Sauvage
1882) from the Lower Albian of Louppy-le-Château (Meuse, France)
Ronan Allain
5. Holotype Braincase of Nothronychus mckinleyi Kirkland and Wolfe
2001 (Theropoda; Therizinosauridae) from the Upper Cretaceous
(Turonian) of West-Central New Mexico James I. Kirkland, David K.
Smith, and Douglas G. Wolfe
6. Anatomy of Harpymimus okladnikovi Barsbold and Perle 1984
(Dinosauria; Theropoda) of Mongolia Yoshitsugu Kobayashi and
Rinchen Barsbold
7. Theropod Teeth from the Upper Cretaceous
(Campanian-Maastrichtian), Big Bend National Park, Texas Julia T.
Sankey, Barbara R. Standhardt, and Judith A. Schiebout
8. Last Patagonian Non-Avian Theropods Rodolfo A. Coria and
Leonardo Salgado
II. Theropod Working Parts
9. Enamel Microstructure Variation within the Theropoda Kathy
Stokosa
10. Bite Me: Biomechanical Models of Theropod Mandibles and
Implications for Feeding Behavior François Therrien, Donald M.
Henderson, and Christopher B. Ruff
11. Body and Tail Posture in Theropod Dinosaurs Gregory S. Paul
12. Furcula of Tyrannosaurus rex Peter Larson and J. Keith Rigby
Jr.
13. The Pectoral Girdle and the Forelimb of Heyuannia (Dinosauria:
Oviraptorosauria) Junchang Lü, Dong Huang, and Licheng Qiu
III. Theropods as Living Animals
14. Sexual Dimorphism in the Early Jurassic Theropod Dinosaur
Dilophosaurus and a Comparison with Other Related Forms Robert
Gay
15. Sexual Selection and Sexual Dimorphism in Theropods Ralph E.
Molnar
16. An Unusual Multi-Individual Tyrannosaurid Bonebed in the Two
Medicine Formation (Late Cretaceous, Campanian) of Montana (USA)
Philip J. Currie, David Trexler, Eva B. Koppelhus, Kelly Wicks, and
Nate Murphy
17. Evidence for Predator-Prey Relationships: Examples for
Allosaurus and Stegosaurus Kenneth Carpenter, Frank Sanders, Lorrie
A. McWhinney, and Lowell Wood
18. Theropod Paleopathology: State-of-the-Art Review Bruce
Rothschild and Darren H. Tanke
Index
Kenneth Carpenter is the dinosaur paleontologist for the Denver Museum of Natural History. He is author of Eggs, Nests, and Baby Dinosaurs (IUP, 2000), editor of The Armored Dinosaurs (IUP, 2001), and co-editor of Mesozoic Vertebrate Life (with Darren H. Tanke, IUP, 2001). He is also co-editor of Dinosaur Systematics; Dinosaur Eggs and Babies; and The Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation.
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