Biology of the Sauropod Dinosaurs

Understanding the Life of Giants

Klein, NicoleEditorRemes, KristianEditorGee, Carole T.EditorSander, P. MartinEditorWings, OliverContributionBorbély, AndrásContributionBreuer, ThomasContributionChristian, AndreasContribution

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Sauropods, those huge plant-eating dinosaurs, possessed bodies that seem to defy every natural law. What were these creatures like as living animals and how could they reach such uniquely gigantic sizes? A dedicated group of researchers in Germany in disciplines ranging from engineering and materials science to animal nutrition and paleontology went in search of the answers to these questions. Biology of the Sauropod Dinosaurs reports on the latest results from this seemingly disparate group of research fields and integrates them into a coherent theory regarding sauropod gigantism. Covering nutrition, physiology, growth, and skeletal structure and body plans, this volume presents the most up-to-date knowledge about the biology of these enormous dinosaurs.

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PublisherIndiana University Press

Publication townBloomington

Publication countryUnited States

Publishing date22/04/2011

SeriesLife of the Past

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Illustrations35 color illus., 148 b&w illus.

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Klein, NicoleEditorRemes, KristianEditorGee, Carole T.EditorSander, P. MartinEditorWings, OliverContributionBorbély, AndrásContributionBreuer, ThomasContributionChristian, AndreasContributionClauss, MarcusContributionDumont, MaïtenaContributionDzemski, GordonContributionFechner, ReginaContributionGanse, BergitaContributionGoessling, RainerContributionGriebeler, Eva MariaContributionGunga, Hanns-ChristianContributionHampe, OliverContributionHeinrich, Wolf-DieterContributionHohn, BiancaContributionHummel, JürgenContributionKaysser-Pyzalla, AnkeContributionKostka, AleksanderContributionMallison, HeinrichContributionMannhardt, JuliaContributionDe Micheli, PascalContributionPajor, NadineContributionPerry, Steven F.ContributionPreuschoft, HolgerContributionRauhut, Oliver W. M.ContributionReis, KatrinContributionStahn, AlexanderContributionStein, KoenContributionStoinski, StefanContributionSuthau, TimContributionTütken, ThomasContributionUnwin, David M.ContributionWerner, JanContributionWitzel, UlrichContribution

Nicole Klein is a vertebrate paleontologist at the University of Bonn who specializes in sauropodomorph dinosaur bone histology and marine reptiles from the Middle Triassic Muschelkalk deposits of Central Europe. She has done extensive fieldwork in many parts of the world, including Alaska and Nevada in the United States, and Ethiopia.

Kristian Remes has studied sauropodomorph anatomy, functional morphology, and phylogeny. He played a major role in the remounting of the famous Brachiosaurus skeleton in the newly renovated Dinosaur Hall at the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin. He is now a program director at the German Research Foundation (DFG).

Carole T. Gee, a senior research scientist at the University of Bonn, has worked on the Mesozoic flora for the last 25 years. She is the Research Unit's paleobotanist and answers questions on sauropod herbivory and the Mesozoic vegetation. Her research applies the knowledge of living plants and their ecological preferences to the interpretation of fossil plants and their habitats, and also includes studies on Eocene mangroves, Tertiary fruits and seeds, and plant taphonomy.

P. Martin Sander is a professor of vertebrate paleontology at the University of Bonn and head of the DFG Research Unit 533 "Biology of the Sauropod Dinosaurs: The Evolution of Gigantism." His research interests are the major events in the evolution of tetrapod vertebrates and how the fossil record helps us to understand them. His core expertise is the microstructure of dinosaur bone and the diversity and evolution of marine reptiles.