Название: The Desert Bones: The Paleontology and Paleoecology of Mid-Cretaceous North Africa (Life of the Past)
Автор: Jamale Ijouiher
Издательство: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253063310
Год: 2022
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 327
Размер: 32,4 МБ
Язык: Английский
An essential introduction to the age of dinosaurs in Africa. Once Africa was referred to as the ''Lost World of the dinosaur era,'' so poorly known were its ancient flora and fauna. Worse still, many priceless fossil specimens from the Sahara Desert were destroyed during the Second World War. Fortunately, in the twentieth-first century, more researchers are now working in north Africa than ever before and making fascinating discoveries such as the dinosaur Spinosaurus.