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020			_a9780691124315 (alk. paper)
020			_a0691124310 (alk. paper)
035			_a(OCoLC)ocm80361470
035			_a(OCoLC)80361470
040			_aDLC _cDLC _dDLC
050	0	0	_aQE720 _b.P65 2008
082	0	0	_a560.45 POI _222
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100	1		_aPoinar, George O.
245	1	0	_aWhat bugged the dinosaurs? : _binsects, disease, and death in the Cretaceous / _cGeorge Poinar, Jr. and Roberta Poinar ; with photographs and drawings by the authors.
246	3	0	_aInsects, disease, and death in the Cretaceous
260			_aPrinceton, N.J. : _bPrinceton University Press, _cc2008.
300			_ax, 264 p., 16 p. of plates : _bill. (some col.), maps ; _c24 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [225]-252) and index.
505	0		_aFossils : 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.
520			_aThis 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.
650		0	_aPaleontology _yCretaceous.
650		0	_aPaleoecology _yCretaceous.
650		0	_aInsects, Fossil.
650		0	_aInsects, Fossil _xEcology.
650		0	_aDinosaurs _xParasites.
650		0	_aDinosaurs _xDiseases.
650		0	_aPlants, Fossil _xParasites.
650		0	_aPlants, Fossil _xDiseases.
650		0	_aAmber fossils.
700	1		_aPoinar, Roberta.
856	4	2	_3Publisher description _uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0726/2007061024-d.html
856	4	2	_3Contributor biographical information _uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0726/2007061024-b.html
856	4	1	_3Table of contents only _uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0806/2007061024-t.html
887			_2CamTech Library
906			_a7 _bcbc _corignew _d1 _eocip _f20 _gy-gencatlg
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999			_c2009 _d2009