Bernissart dinosaurs and early Cretaceous terrestrial ecosystems / edited by Pascal Godefroit.

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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2012.
Description
xv, 629 pages : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm.

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    Series
    Life of the past [More in this series]
    Summary note
    The first complete dinosaur skeleton, that of an Iguanodon, was discovered in a coal mine in Bernissart in 1878. This book examines the Bernissart locality, the methodology of the excavation, and the genus Iguanodon.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • Bernissart and the iguanodons : historical perspective and new investigations / Pascal Godefroit, Johan Yans, and Pierre Bultynck
    • The attempted theft of dinosaur skeletons during the German occupation of Belgium (1914-1918) and some other cases of looting cultural possessions of natural history / Christoph Roolf
    • A short introduction to the geology of the Mons Basin and the Iguanodon Sinkhole, Belgium / Jean-Marc Baele ... [et al.]
    • 3D modeling of the Paleozoic top surface in the Bernissart area and integration of data from boreholes drilled in the Iguanodon Sinkhole / Thierry Martin ... [et al.]
    • The karstic phenomenon of the Iguanodon Sinkhole and the geomorphological situation of the Mons Basin during the early Cretaceous / Yves Quinif and Luciane Licour
    • Geodynamic and tectonic context of early Cretaceous Iguanodon-bearing deposits in the Mons Basin / Sara Vandycke and Paul Spagna
    • Biostratigraphy of the Cretaceous sediments overlying the Wealden facies in the Iguanodon Sinkhole at Bernissart / Johan Yans, Francis Robaszynski, and Edwige Masure
    • On the age of the Bernissart iguanodons / Johan Yans, Jean Dejax, and Johann Schnyder
    • The paleoenvironment of the Bernissart iguanodons : sedimentological analysis of the Lower Cretaceous Wealden facies in the Bernissart area / Paul Spagna ... [et al.]
    • Mesofossil plant remains from the Barremian of Hautrage (Mons Basin, Belgium), with taphonomy, paleoecology, and paleoenvironment insights / Bernard Gomez ... [et al.]
    • Diagenesis of the fossil bones of Iguanodon bernissartensis from the Iguanodon Sinkhole / Thierry Leduc
    • Histological assessment of vertebrate remains in the 2003 Bernissart drill / Armand de Ricqlès, Pascal Godefroit, and Johan Yans
    • Early Cretaceous dinosaur remains from Baudour (Belgium) / Pascal Godefroit ... [et al.]
    • Geological model and cyclic mass mortality scenarios for the Lower Cretaceous Bernissart Iguanodon bonebeds / Jean-Marc Baele ... [et al.]
    • Iguanodontian taxa (Dinosauria: Ornithischia) from the Lower Cretaceous of England and Belgium / David B. Norman
    • The brain of Iguanodon and Mantellisaurus : perspectives on ornithopod evolution / Pascaline Lauters ... [et al.]
    • Hypsilophodon foxii and other smaller bipedal ornithischian dinosaurs from the Lower Cretaceous of southern England / Peter M. Galton
    • The African cousins of the European iguanodontids / Philippe Taquet
    • Anatomy and relationships of Bolong yixianensis, an early Cretaceous iguanodontoid dinosaur from western Liaoning, China / Wu Wenhao and Pascal Godefroit
    • A new basal hadrosauroid dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous of Kazakhstan / Pascal Godefroit ... [et al.]
    • Dinosaur remains from the "Sables verts" (early Cretaceous, Albian) of the eastern Paris Basin / Eric Buffetaut and Laetitia Nori
    • Dinosaur faunas from the early Cretaceous (Valanginian-Albian) of Spain / Xabier Pereda-Suberbiola ... [et al.]
    • New early Cretaceous multituberculate mammals from the Iberian Peninsula / Ainara Badiola, José Ignacio Canudo, and Gloria Cuenca-Bescós
    • Danish dinosaurs : a review / Niels Bonde
    • The age of Lycoptera beds (Jehol biota) in Transbaikalia (Russia) and correlation with Mongolia and China / Evgenia V. Bugdaeva and Valentina S. Markevich
    • A new basal ornithomimosaur (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the early Cretaceous Yixian Formation, northeast China / Jin Liyong, Chen Jun, and Pascal Godefroit
    • Australia's polar early Cretaceous dinosaurs / Thomas H. Rich and Patricia Vickers-Rich
    • Assessment of the potential for a Jehol biota-like Cretaceous polar fossil assemblage in Victoria, Australia / Thomas H. Rich, Li Xiao-Bo, and Patricia Vickers-Rich
    • Freshwater hybodont sharks in early Cretaceous ecosystems : a review / Gilles Cuny
    • The late Cretaceous continental vertebrate fauna from Iharkút (western Hungary) : a review / Attila Ősi ... [et al.]
    • First discovery of Maastrichtian (latest Cretaceous) terrestrial vertebrates in Rusca Montană Basin (Romania) / Vlad A. Codrea, Pascal Godefroit, and Thierry Smith
    • First late Maastrichtian (latest Cretaceous) vertebrate assemblage from Provence (Vitrolles-la-Plaine, southern France) / Xavier Valentin ... [et al.]
    • Reassessment of the posterior brain region in multituberculate mammals / Emmanuel Gilissen and Thierry Smith.
    ISBN
    • 9780253357212 ((alk. paper))
    • 0253357217 ((alk. paper))
    • 9780253005700 ((e-book))
    • 0253005701 ((e-book))
    LCCN
    2011049613
    OCLC
    721905743
    Other standard number
    • 7285164
    • 40021140380
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