Predatory Dinosaurs of the World: A Complete Illustrated GuideProvides a species-by-species catalog of predatory dinosaurs known to have existed. |
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... lower jaw . ( Some muscle surfaces , bones , and tissue have been cut away to show interior muscles and other features . These include the temporal muscles which fill the openings behind the eye socket and join the anterior ptery ...
... lower jaw . ( Some muscle surfaces , bones , and tissue have been cut away to show interior muscles and other features . These include the temporal muscles which fill the openings behind the eye socket and join the anterior ptery ...
Page 91
... jawbones met the skull roof along what is in effect a skull - long hinge joint . At the same time , the tips of the lower jaw could pivot upon one another . Figure 4-5 shows how all this looseness would allow the jaws to bow outward ...
... jawbones met the skull roof along what is in effect a skull - long hinge joint . At the same time , the tips of the lower jaw could pivot upon one another . Figure 4-5 shows how all this looseness would allow the jaws to bow outward ...
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... lower jaw by some of the muscle fibers . THE PREDATORY DINOSAURS 319 how they hunted . In fact , one of the nice things about tyran- nosaurs is that it is obvious what they were up to - unlike undersized Allosaurus or weird Carnotaurus ...
... lower jaw by some of the muscle fibers . THE PREDATORY DINOSAURS 319 how they hunted . In fact , one of the nice things about tyran- nosaurs is that it is obvious what they were up to - unlike undersized Allosaurus or weird Carnotaurus ...
Contents
Preface | 11 |
CONTENTS | 17 |
LifeStyles of the Big and Powerful and the Small | 27 |
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Albertosaurus allosaurs AMNH animals ankle antirrhopus Archaeopteryx archosaurs avetheropods avian Avimimus Bakker Barsbold big theropods bigger birdlike birds braincase brontosaurs cannon bone carnivores Ceratosaurus claws Coelophysis crocodilians Dilophosaurus dino dromaeosaurs ectotherms endotherms evolved extinct fauna feathers femur FEMUR LENGTH flight flying forelimbs Formation fossil genus giant gracile head herbivorous herbivorous dinosaurs herrerasaurs hind limbs HIP HEIGHT horn joint Jurassic HORIZON juvenile KILOGRAMMAGE known Lagosuchus Late Cretaceous HORIZON late Late Cretaceous libratus living lizards look lower jaw MAIN ANATOMICAL mammals Megalosaurus metabolic rates Mongolia mongoliensis muscles neck nosaurs Ornithomimus ostrich ostrich-mimics Ostrom Oviraptor paleodinosaurs Paleont paleotheropods predators PREDATORY DINOSAURS preorbital prey primitive probably Protoavis protobirds relative reptiles restorations Russell saurs sickle-claws similar skeletal skeleton SKULL LENGTH slender small theropods smaller snout species specimen speed Spinosaurus tail teeth thecodonts thero theropods things trackways Troodon tyrannosaurs Tyrannosaurus rex upper Velociraptor vertebrae WORLD Туре