Oceans of Kansas, Second Edition

A Natural History of the Western Interior Sea

Michael J. Everhart (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

460 Seiten

2017 | 2nd New edition
Indiana University Press (Verlag)
978-0-253-02632-3 (ISBN)

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Revised, updated, and expanded with the latest interpretations and fossil discoveries, the second edition of Oceans of Kansas adds new twists to the fascinating story of the vast inland sea that engulfed central North America during the Age of Dinosaurs. Giant sharks, marine reptiles called mosasaurs, pteranodons, and birds with teeth all flourished in and around these shallow waters. Their abundant and well-preserved remains were sources of great excitement in the scientific community when first discovered in the 1860s and continue to yield exciting discoveries 150 years later. Michael J. Everhart vividly captures the history of these startling finds over the decades and re-creates in unforgettable detail these animals from our distant past and the world in which they lived—above, within, and on the shores of America's ancient inland sea.

Michael J. Everhart, Adjunct Curator of Paleontology at the Sternberg Museum of Natural History in Hays, Kansas, is an expert on the Late Cretaceous of western Kansas. He is the creator of the award-winning "Oceans of Kansas" paleontology website at www.oceansofkansas.com. He lives in Derby, Kansas.

Preface
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
1. Introduction: An Ocean in Kansas?
2. Our Discovery of the Western Interior Sea
3. Invertebrates, Plants, and Trace Fossils
4. Sharks: Sharp Teeth and Shell Crushers
5. Fishes, Large and Small
6. Turtles: Leatherback Giants
7. Where the Elasmosaurs Roamed
8. Pliosaurs and Polycotylids
9. Enter the Mosasaurs
10. Pteranodons: Rulers of the Air
11. Feathers and Teeth
12. Dinosaurs?
13. The Big Picture
Epilogue: Where Did It Go?
References
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	13.10.2017
Reihe/Serie	Life of the Past
Zusatzinfo	220 Halftones, color
Verlagsort	Bloomington, IN
Sprache	englisch
Maße	178 x 254 mm
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Hydrologie / Ozeanografie
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Mineralogie / Paläontologie
ISBN-10	0-253-02632-6 / 0253026326
ISBN-13	978-0-253-02632-3 / 9780253026323
Zustand	Neuware