Tyrannosaurus rex, the tyrant king / edited by Peter Larson and Kenneth Carpenter

Published:: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2008]
Copyright Date:: ©2008
Physical Description:: xvi, 435 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.).
Additional Creators:: Larson, Peter L. and Carpenter, Kenneth, 1949-

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Series:

Life of the past

Contents:

One hundred years of Tyrannosaurus rex : the skeletons / Neal L. Larson -- Wyoming's Dynamosaurus imperiosus and other early discoveries of Tyrannosaurus rex in the Rocky Mountain West / Brent H. Breithaupt, Elizabeth H. Southwell, and Neffra A. Matthews -- How old Is T. rex? : challenges with the dating of terrestrial strata deposited during the Maastrichtian stage of the Cretaceous period / Kirk Johnson -- Preliminary account of the tyrannosaurid Pete from the Lance Formation of Wyoming / Kraig Derstler and John M. Myers -- Taphonomy of the Tyrannosaurus rex Peck's Rex from the Hell Creek Formation of Montana / Kraig Derstler and John M. Myers -- Taphonomy and environment of deposition of a juvenile tyrannosaurid skeleton from the Hell Creek Formation (latest Maastrichtian) of southeastern Montana / Michael D. Henderson and William H. Harrison -- One pretty amazing T. rex / Mary Higby Schweitzer, Jennifer L. Wittmeyer, and John R. Horner -- Variation and sexual dimorphism in Tyrannosaurus rex / Peter Larson -- Why Tyrannosaurus rex had puny arms : an integral morphodynamic solution to a simple puzzle in theropod paleobiology / Martin Lockley, Reiji Kukihara, and Laura Mitchell -- Looking again at the forelimb of Tyrannosaurus rex / Christine Lipkin and Kenneth Carpenter -- Rex, sit : digital modeling of Tyrannosaurus rex at rest / Kent A. Stevens ... [et al.] -- T. rex speed trap / Phillip L. Manning -- Atlas of the skull bones of Tyrannosaurus rex / Peter Larson -- Palatal kinesis of Tyrannosaurus rex / Hans C.E. Larsson -- Reconstruction of the jaw musculature of Tyrannosaurus rex / Ralph E. Molnar -- Vestigialism in a dinosaur / William L. Abler -- Tyrannosaurid pathologies as clues to nature and nurture in the Cretaceous / Bruce M. Rothschild and Ralph E. Molnar -- The extreme lifestyles and habits of the gigantic tyrannosaurid superpredators of the late Cretaceous of North America and Asia / Gregory S. Paul -- An analysis of predator-prey behavior in a head-to-head encounter between Tyrannosaurus rex and Triceratops / John Happ -- A critical reappraisal of the obligate scavenging hypothesis for Tyrannosaurus rex and other tyrant dinosaurs / Thomas R. Holtz Jr. -- Tyrannosaurus rex : a century of celebrity / Donald F. Glut.

Subject(s):

Tyrannosaurus rex—Research

ISBN:

9780253350879 (cloth : alk. paper)
0253350875 (cloth : alk. paper)

Bibliography Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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