Macmillan Illustrated Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Animals: A Visual Who's Who of Prehistoric Life - Hardcover

Dougal Dixon; Cox, Barry; Savage, R.J.G.; Gardiner, Brian

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0025801910 ISBN 13: 9780025801912

Publisher: Macmillan General Reference, 1988

Synopsis

In a who's who of prehistoric life, readers take a visually spectacular trip through our evolutionary past going back more than 500 million years. All creatures are depicted in full-color paintings based on the latest paleontological information.

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Reviews

These are happy hunting days for lovers of dinosaur paraphernalia. As such, the Macmillan encyclopedia has something for everyone: colored reconstructions of the animals matched with a text whose style is accessible to most enthusiasts but whose content is extensive enough for more serious students. Both newly discovered and classic fossil animals are included, and there is background information to put each animal in time, place, and taxonomic perspective. The book's strongest feature is its inclusion of vertebrate animals other than dinosaurs. The variety of fossil fish and mammals should convince the skeptical that dinosaurs had no monopoly on bizarre structure. (See also R. McNeill Alexander's Dynamics of Dinosaurs and Other Extinct Giants , reviewed in this issue, p.00.)-- Margery C. Coombs, Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: Macmillan General Reference
• Publication date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0025801910
• ISBN 13: 9780025801912
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 312