Each group included many different species. Entirely vegetarians ... Monoclonius. Styracosaurus. Types of Ceratopsia. Types of Ceratopsia. Torosaurus ...
A survey of dinosaur diversity by clade, age, country and year of description. Michael P. Taylor dino@miketaylor.org.uk Introduction Understanding dinosaur diversity ...
Crocs ( and dinos?) muscles pulling liver backward and 'rocking' pelvic bones ... How could phylogeny explain the difference between turtles and crocs? ...
Life of the Mesozoic Era main points .. 1.marine invertebrates that survived end Permian extinction diversified and repopulated the seas 2. flowering plants evolve ...
Water moves heat around the planet; tectonics determines how ... Seafloor spreading causes bulges in ocean basins. Big enough bulges and/or lots of them ...
Lots of claws and teeth, including huge talon on one digit of forelimbs ... Dinosaurs were huge - could have been effectively homeothermic w/o endothermy ...
Mass extinctions mainly of cephalopods. First appearances of ... Small, rodent-like creatures. Possibly nocturnal. Some lines became extinct in Cretaceous ...
Name means 'sauropod form'; Sauropoda means 'lizard feet', even though their ... Extremely large size: all sauropods were at least elephant-sized as adults, and ...
... until Middle Jurassic, and all but one known are Cretaceous ... Next oldest, and much better known, is Early Cretaceous Psittacosaurus, the 'parrot dinosaur' ...
origin of the parasitic feeding guilds in terrestrial ecosystems ... and shared the seas with ichthyosaurs, plesiosaurs, and other marine reptiles. plesiosaur ...
characterized chiefly by a vertebral column. Earliest known was the conodont ... sharing a more recent common ancestor with Allosaurus than with modern birds) ...
no urinary, cardiovascular, respiratory or nervous system. cellular grade of ... legs have two branches (biramous appendages) outer branch are flattened gills ...
Animal Evolution Porifera sponges 5,000 living sponge species Three Main Groups: hexactineuida (glass sponges) demospangia calcarea (calcareous sponges) no coelom ...
Systematics Kingdom Genus Species Family Order Class Phylum Plant Zea Z. mays Poaceae Poales Monocotyledonae Anthophyta Plant Vanilla V. planifolia Orchidaceae ...
EMBRYOLOGICAL FEATURES: amnion, chorion, ... Costal breathing (inhaling using movement of the ribs) ... Some pterodactyloids had wildly developed skulls. ...
Three-fold division of rocks in Germany. Named by Frederich ... Emplacement of batholiths. THE JURASSIC. Cordilleran Orogeny. THE JURASSIC. Cordilleran Orogeny ...
Phylogeny: Investigating the Tree of Life Legless lizards have evolved independently in several different groups * * Figure 26.10 Monophyletic, paraphyletic, and ...
Higher Chordates Amphibia, Reptilia, & Aves Subphyla Vertebrata Evolution of tetrapods One of the most significant events in vertebrate history was when the fins of ...
... roughly 18 feet (5.5 m) tall (measured from the ground to the ... Chasmosaurus was up to 16-26 feet tall (5-8 m) long. It weighed roughly 3.5 tons (3220 kg) ...
queries possible' (to paraphrase Larry Wall, of Perl) CQL a Common Query Language ... left-to-right parsing of boolean operators. dinosaur and (bird or dinobird) ...
A. film show. B. dance programs. Tapescript for this part: Museums have changed. ... Today, millions of African Americans celebrate Kwanzaa during the month of ...
Mike Taylor mike@indexdata.com CQL a Common Query Language. What CQL is. Motivation ... Mike Taylor mike@indexdata.com Learning curves for query languages ...
SEM Photo of Glass Spheres and Globules = Molten Droplets of Rock ... Turtles. Mammals. Lizards. Baculites compressus time. approximately 73 MYA. Pierre Seaway ...
... be nominated as the Texas State dinosaur than Pleurocoelus (Brachiosaur Sauropod) ... dinosaur from Pleurocoelus (Brachiosaur Sauropod) to Technosaurus. ...
CQL a Common Query Language. Mike Taylor mike@indexdata.com CQL a Common ... Python (Rob Sanderson in Cheshire) Perl (Ed Summers' CQL::Parser module) ...
Although other dinosaurs uncovered in Texas are huge in terms of their physical ... Ornithischian dinosaurs from the Upper Triassic of the United States - Hunt, A.P. ...
Some of the larger sauropod tracks are over a metre long and as deep as bathtubs. ... Roland Bird and crew examined a large set of sauropod trackways. ...