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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
Table of Contents:
  • 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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