Digging DinosaursThe personal story of a single dig and how it changed the current view of dinosaurs, this paints a vivid picture of the dinosaurs' day-to-day lives. Illustrated. |
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Page 156
... Orodromeus makelai in honor of Bob Makela and his work on Egg Mountain.2 I SHOULD POINT OUT that though we solved the identity problem of the new dinosaur , we didn't solve the problem of what it ate . It is assumed that all ...
... Orodromeus makelai in honor of Bob Makela and his work on Egg Mountain.2 I SHOULD POINT OUT that though we solved the identity problem of the new dinosaur , we didn't solve the problem of what it ate . It is assumed that all ...
Page 188
... Orodromeus makelai . This is , however , a very superficial way of looking at the dig and at paleontology . It's more like compiling baseball statistics . What's important is to look at what the finds meant , what they told us about ...
... Orodromeus makelai . This is , however , a very superficial way of looking at the dig and at paleontology . It's more like compiling baseball statistics . What's important is to look at what the finds meant , what they told us about ...
Page 209
... Orodromeus makelai , 156 , 188 ; see also Hypsilophodontids Ostrom , John , 79 , 172 , 173 Overburden , 120 Owen , Richard , 69 Parenting , 58-59 , 62 , 63 , 114 , 115 , 132 , 157-60 , 165 , 188 , 189 Peebles family , 52 , 54 , 63 , 94 ...
... Orodromeus makelai , 156 , 188 ; see also Hypsilophodontids Ostrom , John , 79 , 172 , 173 Overburden , 120 Owen , Richard , 69 Parenting , 58-59 , 62 , 63 , 114 , 115 , 132 , 157-60 , 165 , 188 , 189 Peebles family , 52 , 54 , 63 , 94 ...
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Digging Dinosaurs: The Search That Unraveled the Mystery of Baby Dinosaurs Gorma Horner,John R. Horner No preview available - 1990 |
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acid adult animals baby bones baby dinosaurs Bear Paw shale big bone bed birds Bob Makela bone bed caliche called camp Camposaur carnivores ceratopsians Choteau collection creatures crew deposits digging dinosaur bones dinosaur eggs dinosaur fossils dinosaurs dirt discoveries duckbills egg clutches Egg Gulch Egg Mountain eggshell fragments embryos endotherms evidence femur fossil bones fossils geological green mudstone hadrosaurs hatched herbivores herd hill Horner hypsilophodontids Jill Peterson Judith River formation juvenile dinosaurs kind of dinosaur lake lambeosaurs land layers lizards maiasaurs mammals Marion Brandvold Medicine formation metabolism miles million years ago Montana mudstone Museum nose ornithischians Orodromeus paleontologists Peebles ranch perhaps Phil Currie preserved Princeton reptiles Ricqlès rock Rockies saurischian sauropods season sediments skeletons skull species spot streams summer surface teepees teeth temperature Troodon upper coastal plain vertebrate paleontology walking warmblooded Willow Creek anticline young dinosaurs