World Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs & Prehistoric Creatures
Encyclopedia
The World Encyclopedia
of Dinosaurs & Prehistoric Creatures is an encyclopedia featuring 1000 of the prehistoric tetrapod
s from the late Devonian
to the Pleistocene
. It was published in 2007 by Lorenz Books, and by Dougal Dixon
.
Encyclopedia
An encyclopedia is a type of reference work, a compendium holding a summary of information from either all branches of knowledge or a particular branch of knowledge....
of Dinosaurs & Prehistoric Creatures is an encyclopedia featuring 1000 of the prehistoric tetrapod
Tetrapod
Tetrapods are vertebrate animals having four limbs. Amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals are all tetrapods; even snakes and other limbless reptiles and amphibians are tetrapods by descent. The earliest tetrapods evolved from the lobe-finned fishes in the Devonian...
s from the late Devonian
Devonian
The Devonian is a geologic period and system of the Paleozoic Era spanning from the end of the Silurian Period, about 416.0 ± 2.8 Mya , to the beginning of the Carboniferous Period, about 359.2 ± 2.5 Mya...
to the Pleistocene
Pleistocene
The Pleistocene is the epoch from 2,588,000 to 11,700 years BP that spans the world's recent period of repeated glaciations. The name pleistocene is derived from the Greek and ....
. It was published in 2007 by Lorenz Books, and by Dougal Dixon
Dougal Dixon
-Biography:Dixon studied geology and palaeontology at the University of St. Andrews and is best known for his illustrated works of speculative fiction, which largely concern "zoologies of the future": his own visions of how human beings and animals might evolve in millions of years' time...
.
Other books by Dougal Dixon
- The New Dinosaurs: An Alternative EvolutionThe New Dinosaurs: An Alternative EvolutionThe New Dinosaurs: An Alternative Evolution is a book written by geologist and paleontologist Dougal Dixon. While Dixon's earlier book After Man is set fifty million years in the future, The New Dinosaurs speculates on how the dinosaurs would have evolved over the last 65 million years had the...
(1988) - The Children's Giant Book of Dinosaurs (approx. 1990)
- If Dinosaurs Were Alive Today
External links
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