Mesozoic Vertebrate Life

This pathbreaking volume provides further evidence that we are in the midst of a new golden age of dinosaur paleontology. It presents important new research on the vertebrate life of the Mesozoic as reported by 46 of the leading workers in the field. Organized into sections on theropods, sauropods, ornithischians, dinosaurian fauna, paleopathologies, and ichnology, these new papers represent a broad cross-section of current research. Studies of Charles Sternberg and of dinosaurs in fiction conclude the book. Among the interesting findings presented in Mesozoic Vertebrate Life are a new theropod from Patagonia, a new sauropod and a new ornithopod from Utah, and new studies of the phylogeny and taxonomy of the Tyrannosauridae. There are reports on new research on the feathered dinosaurs from China and the origins of flight, with striking color photographs; on current speculations on the socioecology of Ceratopsid dinosaurs; and on new studics of what can be inferred about dinosaur behavior from examining bone pathologies and trackways. These 33 papers represent cutting-edge research on dinosaurs and other vertebrates from an important period in the life of the past.