What bugged the dinosaurs? : insects, disease, and death in the Cretaceous / George Poinar, Jr. and Roberta Poinar ; with photographs and drawings by the authors.
Poinar, George O.; Poinar, Roberta.
2008
QE734 .P65 2008 (Mapit)
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Title What bugged the dinosaurs? : insects, disease, and death in the Cretaceous / George Poinar, Jr. and Roberta Poinar ; with photographs and drawings by the authors.
Author Poinar, George O.
ISBN 9780691124315 (alk. paper)
0691124310 (alk. paper)
Imprint Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2008.
Language English
Description x, 264 p., 16 p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 24 cm.
Call Number QE734 .P65 2008
Dewey Decimal Classification 560/.45
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-252) and index.
Added Author Poinar, Roberta.
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1. Fossils : a time capsule
2. The Cretaceous : a time of change
3. Herbivory
4. Dinosaurs competing with insects
5. Did dinosaurs or insects "invent" flowering plants?
6. Pollination
7. Blights and diseases of Cretaceous plants
8. The Cretaceous Age of chimeras and other oddities
9. Sanitary engineers of the Cretaceous
10. The case for entomophagy among dinosaurs
11. Gorging on dinosaurs
12. Biting midges
13. Sand flies
14. Mosquitoes
15. Blackflies
16. Horseflies and deerflies
17. Fleas and lice
18. Ticks and mites
19. Parasitic worms
20. The discovery of Cretaceous diseases
21. Diseases and the evolution of pathogens
22. Insects : the ultimate survivors
23. Extinctions and the K/T boundary
Appendix A. Cretaceous Hexapoda
Appendix B. Key factors contributing to the survival of terrestrial animals
Appendix C. Problems with evaluating the fossil record and extinctions.

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