Dinosaurs: The Most Complete, Up-to-Date Encyclopedia for Dinosaur Lovers of All Ages

Dinosaurs: The Most Complete, Up-to-Date Encyclopedia for Dinosaur Lovers of All Ages
Author(s)	Thomas R. Holtz Jr., Luis Rey
Language	English
Genre(s)	Reference encyclopedia
Publisher	Random House
Publication date	2007
Pages	432
ISBN	978-0-375-82419-7
OCLC Number	77486015

Dinosaurs: The Most Complete, Up-to-Date Encyclopedia for Dinosaur Lovers of All Ages is a book by Dr. Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. & Luis Rey. It was published in 2007 by Random House.

Table of contents

• Introduction. The world of dinosaurs
• Chapter 1. History of dinosaur discoveries
• Chapter 2. Rocks and environment
• Chapter 3. Fossils and fossilization
• Chapter 4. Geologic time: how old is that dinosaur, and how do we know?
• Chapter 5. From the field to the museum: finding fossils
• Chapter 6. Bringing dinosaurs to life: the science of dinosaur art
• Chapter 7. Taxonomy: why do dinosaurs have such strange names?
• Chapter 8. Evolution: descent with modification
• Chapter 9. Cladistics: figuring out the dinosaur family tree
• Chapter 10. Evolution of the vertebrates
• Chapter 11. The origin of dinosaurs
• Chapter 12. Saurischians (lizard-hipped dinosaurs)
• Chapter 13. Coelophysoids and Ceratosaurs (primitive meat-eating dinosaurs)
• Chapter 14. Spinosauroids (megalosaurs and the fin-backed fish-eating dinosaurs)
• Chapter 15. Carnosaurs (giant meat-eating dinosaurs)
• Chapter 16. Primitive Coelurosaurs (the first fluffy dinosaurs)
• Chapter 17. Tyrannosauroids (tyrant dinosaurs)
• Chapter 18. Ornithomimosaurs and Alvarezsaurs (ostrich and thumb-clawed dinosaurs)
• Chapter 19. Oviraptorosaurs and Therizinosauroids (egg-thief and sloth dinosaurs)
• Chapter 20. Deinonychosaurs (raptor dinosaurs)
• Chapter 21. Avialians (birds)
• Chapter 22. Prosauropods (primitive long-necked plant-eating dinosaurs)
• Chapter 23. Primitive Sauropods (early giant long-necked dinosaurs)
• Chapter 24. Diplodocoids (whip-tailed giant long-necked dinosaurs)
• Chapter 25. Macronarians (big-nosed giant long-necked dinosaurs)
• Chapter 26. Ornithischians (bird-hipped dinosaurs)
• Chapter 27. Primitive Thyreophorans (early armored dinosaurs)
• Chapter 28. Stegosaurs (plated dinosaurs)
• Chapter 29. Ankylosaurs (tank dinosaurs)
• Chapter 30. Primitive Ornithopods (primitive beaked dinosaurs)
• Chapter 31. Iguanodontians (advanced beaked dinosaurs)
• Chapter 32. Hadrosaurids (duckbilled dinosaurs)
• Chapter 33. Pachycephalosaurs (domeheaded dinosaurs)
• Chapter 34. Primitive Ceratopsians (parrot and frilled dinosaurs)
• Chapter 35. Ceratopsids (horned dinosaurs)
• Chapter 36. Dinosaur eggs and babies
• Chapter 37. Dinosaur behavior: how did dinosaurs act, and how do we know?
• Chapter 38. Dinosaur biology: living, breathing dinosaurs
• Chapter 39. Life in the Triassic Period
• Chapter 40. Life in the Jurassic Period
• Chapter 41. Life in the Cretaceous Period
• Chapter 42. Extinctions: the world of the dinosaurs ends

External links

• Supplementary Information to Dinosaurs: The Most Complete, Up-to-Date Encyclopedia for Dinosaur Lovers of All Ages by Thomas R. Holtz, Jr., illustrations by Luis Rey
• Review in School Library Journal, November 21, 2007
• Review in Science News, January 12, 2008
• Listing in "Outstanding Science Trade Books for Students K–12: 2008 (Books published in 2007)", National Science Teachers Association
• Parent's Choice Recommendation for Non-Fiction 2008
• Listing in "Science Books for Fun and Learning — Some Recommendations from 2008" in Science magazine