03775cam a2200517 a 4500 14707792 OSt 20241130173907.0 070123s2008 njuabf b 001 0 eng 2007061024 GBA772905 bnb 013888617 Uk 9780691124315 (alk. paper) 0691124310 (alk. paper) (OCoLC)ocm80361470 (OCoLC)80361470 DLC DLC DLC QE720 .P65 2008 560.45 POI 22 0 Poinar, George O. What bugged the dinosaurs? : insects, disease, and death in the Cretaceous / George Poinar, Jr. and Roberta Poinar ; with photographs and drawings by the authors. Insects, disease, and death in the Cretaceous Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2008. x, 264 p., 16 p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-252) and index. 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. This book reveals that T. rex was not the only killer in the Cretaceous: insects--from biting sand flies to disease-causing parasites--dominated life on the planet and played a significant role in the life and death of the dinosaurs. Analyzing exotic insects fossilized in Cretaceous amber at three major deposits in Lebanon, Burma, and Canada, the authors reconstruct the complex ecology of a hostile prehistoric world inhabited by voracious swarms of insects. They draw upon tantalizing new evidence from their discoveries of disease-producing vertebrate pathogens in Cretaceous blood-sucking flies, as well as intestinal worms and protozoa found in fossilized dinosaur excrement, to provide a unique view of how insects infected with malaria, leishmania, and other pathogens, together with intestinal parasites, could have devastated dinosaur populations.--From publisher description. Paleontology Cretaceous. Paleoecology Cretaceous. Insects, Fossil. Insects, Fossil Ecology. Dinosaurs Parasites. Dinosaurs Diseases. Plants, Fossil Parasites. Plants, Fossil Diseases. Amber fossils. Poinar, Roberta. Publisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0726/2007061024-d.html Contributor biographical information http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0726/2007061024-b.html Table of contents only http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0806/2007061024-t.html CamTech Library 7 cbc orignew 1 ocip 20 y-gencatlg ddc BK 0 2009 2009 0 0 ddc 0 0 CamTech CamTech RCC 2024-11-30 0 560.45 POI 0000002504 2026-07-27 00:00:00 C.1 2024-11-30 BK