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Tables of Contents for The Penguin Historical Atlas of Dinosaurs
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Part I: How to Understand Dinosaurs
8-15
7
From Organism to Fossil
16
2
Telling Geological Time
18
2
Evolution
20
2
First Finds
22
2
The Heroic Age
24
2
Worldwide Dinosaurs
26
2
Latest Finds
28
2
Digging up Dinosaurs Today
30
2
Making Dinosaurs Live
32
6
Part II: Before the Dinosaurs
38-47
9
Timeline I
48
2
Continents on the Move
50
2
Carboniferous and Permian World
52
2
The Land that Time Forgot
54
2
The End-Permian Mass Extinction
56
2
Part III: The Triassic: the First Dinosaurs
58-63
5
Competition or Mass Extinction?
64
2
Timeline II
66
2
The Triassic World
68
2
The First Dinosaurs
70
2
Dinosaur Phylogeny
72
2
Coelophysis from Ghost Ranch
74
2
Plateosaurus from Trossingen
76
2
Part IV: The Jurassic: Heyday of Giant Dinosaurs
78-87
9
The Jurassic World
88
2
Dinosaurs of the Early Jurassic
90
2
Middle Jurassic Dinosaurs of England
92
2
Middle Jurassic Dinosaurs of China
94
2
Dinosaurs of Gondwanaland
96
2
The Biggest Dinosaur Expedition of All
98
2
Dinosaurs of the Morrison Formation
100
2
Dinosaurs of the American Midwest
102
2
Megatrackways and Dinosaur Freeways
104
2
Part V: The Cretaceous: New Dinosaur Groups
106-115
9
The Cretaceous World
116
2
Dinosaurs of the Wealden
118
2
Polar Dinosaurs
120
2
Early Cretaceous Dinosaurs of Africa
122
2
Dinosaurs of Gondwanaland
124
2
Dinosaurs of Mongolia And China
126
2
Dwarf Dinosaurs of Romania
128
2
Late Cretaceous Dinosaurs of N. America
130
2
The Last American Dinosaurs
132
2
The Extinction of the Dinosaurs
134
2
Further reading
136
1
Index
137
7
Acknowledgements
144