Michael J. Benton / Mikhail A. Shishkin / David M. Unwin / Evgenii N. Kurochkin (eds.)

The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia

Herausgeber: Shishkin, Mikhail A.; Kurochkin, Evgenii N.; Unwin, David M.

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A unique collaboration between scientists in the former Soviet Union and those in the West. It describes the many exciting finds that have been discovered in former Soviet territories, but never before described in English.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 740
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Oktober 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 189mm x 40mm
• Gewicht: 1382g
• ISBN-13: 9780521545822
• ISBN-10: 052154582X
• Artikelnr.: 21834878

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements; Introduction Michael J. Benton, Evgeny N. Kurochkin,
Mikhail A. Shiskin and David M. Unwin; Conventions in Russian and Mongolian
palaeontological literature Michael J. Benton; Stratigraphic units in the
Permo-Mesozoic of Russia and Middle Asia; Mongolian place names and
stratigraphic terms; Journals and series; Transliterated names of Russian
and Mongolian palaeontologists and geologists; 1. The history of excavation
of Permo-Triassic vertebrates from Eastern Europe Vitalii G. Ochev and
Mikhail V. Surkov; 2. The amniote faunas of the Russian Permian Sean P.
Modesto and N. Rybczynski; 3. Permian and Triassic temnospondyls from
Russia Mikhail A. Shishkin, Igor V. Novikov and Yuri M. Gubin; 4. Permian
and Triassic anthracosaurs from Eastern Europe Igor V. Novikov, Mikhail A.
Shishkin and Valerii K. Golubev; 5. The Russian pareiasaurs Michael S. Y.
Lee; 6. Mammal-like reptiles from Russia Bernard Battail and Mikhail V.
Surkov; 7. Tetrapod biostratigraphy of the Triassic of Eastern Europe
Mikhail A. Shishkin, Vitalii G. Ochev, Vladlen R. Lozovskii and Igor V.
Novikov; 8. Early archosaurs from Russia David J. Gower and Andrei G.
Sennikov; 9. Procolophonids from the Permo-Triassic of Russia Patrick S.
Spencer and Michael J. Benton; 10. Enigmatic small reptiles from the
Middle-Late Triassic of Kirgizia David M. Unwin, Vladimir R. Alifanov and
Michael J. Benton; 11. Mesozoic marine reptiles of Russia and other former
Soviet republics Glenn W. Storrs, Maxim S. Arkhangelskii and Vladimir M.
Efimov; 12. Asiatic dinosaur rush Edwin H. Colbert; 13. The
Russian-Mongolian expeditions and research in vertebrate palaeontology
Evgenii N. Kurochkin and Rinchen Barsbold; 14. The Cretaceous stratigraphy
and palaeobiogeography of Mongolia Vladimir F. Shuvalov; 15.
Lithostratigraphy and sedimentary settings of the Cretaceous dinosaur beds
of Mongolia Tom Jerzykiewicz; 16. Mesozoic amphibians from Mongolia and the
Central Asiatic republics Mikhail A. Shishkin; 17. Mesozoic turtles from
Mongolia Vladimir B. Sukhanov; 18. The fossil record of Cretaceous lizards
from Mongolia Vladimir R. Alifanov; 19. Choristoderes from the Lower
Cretaceous of northern Asia Glenn W. Storrs and Mikhail B. Efimov; 20.
Mesozoic crocodyliforms of north-central Eurasia Glenn W. Storrs and
Mikhail B. Efimov; 21. Pterosaurs from Russia, Middle Asia and Mongolia
Natasha N. Bakhurina and David M. Unwin; 22. Theropod dinosaurs from the
Cretaceous of Mongolia Phillip J. Currie; 23. Sauropods from Mongolia and
the former Soviet Union Teresa Maryanska; 24. Ornithopods from Kazakhstan,
Mongolia and Siberia David B. Norman and Hans-Dieter Sues; 25. The fossil
record, systematics and evolution of pachycephalosaurs and ceratopsians
from Asia Paul C. Sereno; 26. Armoured dinosaurs from the Cretaceous of
Mongolia Tat'yana A. Tumanova; 27. Mesozoic birds of Mongolia and the
former USSR Evgenii N. Kurochkin; 28. Eggs and eggshells of dinosaurs and
birds from the Cretaceous of Mongolia Konstantin E. Mikhailov; 29. Mammals
from the Mesozoic of Mongolia Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska, Boris A. Trofimov
and Michael J. Novacek; 30. Mammals from the Mesozoic of Kirghizia,
Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Tajikistan Alexander O. Aver'yanovn.