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What bugged the dinosaurs? insects, disease, and death in the Cretaceous /

Main Author: Poinar, George O.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Other Authors: Poinar, Roberta.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2008.
Subjects:
Paleontology > Cretaceous.
Paleoecology > Cretaceous.
Insects, Fossil.
Insects, Fossil > Ecology.
Dinosaurs > Parasites.
Dinosaurs > Diseases.
Plants, Fossil > Parasites.
Plants, Fossil > Diseases.
Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10367277
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245 1 0 |a What bugged the dinosaurs?  |b insects, disease, and death in the Cretaceous /  |c George Poinar, Jr. and Roberta Poinar ; with photographs and drawings by the authors. 
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300 |a x, 264 p., 16 p. of plates :  |b ill. (some col.), maps. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-252) and index. 
505 0 |a Fossils : a time capsule -- The Cretaceous : a time of change -- Herbivory -- Dinosaurs competing with insects -- Did dinosaurs or insects "invent" flowering plants? -- Pollination -- Blights and diseases of Cretaceous plants -- The Cretaceous Age of chimeras and other oddities -- Sanitary engineers of the Cretaceous -- The case for entomophagy among dinosaurs -- Gorging on dinosaurs -- Biting midges -- Sand flies -- Mosquitoes -- Blackflies -- Horseflies and deerflies -- Fleas and lice -- Ticks and mites -- Parasitic worms -- The discovery of Cretaceous diseases -- Diseases and the evolution of pathogens -- Insects : the ultimate survivors -- Extinctions and the K/T boundary -- Appendix A. Cretaceous Hexapoda -- Appendix B. Key factors contributing to the survival of terrestrial animals -- Appendix C. Problems with evaluating the fossil record and extinctions. 
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