The best scholarly reference work available on dinosaurs. . . . The volume will serve as a vehicle for university level instruction, and as a foundation for future research on dinosaurs.--Dale A. Russell, author of An Odyssey in Time: The Dinosaurs of North America Includes comprehensive coverage of dinosaur systematics, reproduction, and life history strategies, biogeography, taphonomy, paleoecology, thermoregulation, and extinction. This book offers documentation of dinosaur distribution through time and space, and discussion of the interface between geology and biology. Abbreviations Used in Figures ix Foreword xvii David B. Weishampel Peter Dodson Halszka Osmolska Introduction 1(6) David B. Weishampel Peter Dodson Halszka Osmolska SECTION I Dinosaur Systematics Origin and Relationships of Dinosauria 7(18) Michael J. Benton Saurischia 21(4) Thomas R. Holtz Jr. Halszka Osmolska Basal Saurischia 25(22) Max C. Langer Ceratosauria 47(24) Ronald S. Tykoski Timothy Rowe Basal Tetanurae 71(40) Thomas R. Holtz Jr. Ralph E. Molnar Philip J. Currie Tyrannosauroidea 111(26) Thomas R. Holtz Jr. Ornithomimosauria 137(14) Peter J. Makovicky Yoshitsugu Kobayashi Philip J. Currie Therizinosauroidea 151(14) James M. Clark Teresa Maryanska Rinchen Barsbold Oviraptorosauria 165(19) Halszka Osmolska Philip J. Currie Rinchen Barsbold Troodontidae 184(12) Peter J. Makovicky Mark A. Norell Dromaeosauridae 196(14) Mark A. Norell Peter J. Makovicky Basal Avialae 210(22) Kevin Padian Prosauropoda 232(27) Peter M. Galton Paul Upchurch Sauropoda 259(64) Paul Upchurch Paul M. Barrett Peter Dodson Ornithischia 323(2) David B. Weishampel Basal Ornithischia 325(10) David B. Norman Lawrence M. Witmer David B. Weishampel Basal Thyreophora 335(28) David B. Norman Lawrence M. Witmer David B. Weishampel Stegosauria 343(20) Peter M. Galton Paul Upchurch Ankylosauria 363(30) Matthew K. Vickaryous Teresa Maryanska David B. Weishampel Basal Ornithopoda 393(20) David B. Norman Hans-Dieter Sues Lawrence M. Witmer Rodolfo A. Coria Basal Iguanodontia 413(25) David B. Norman Hadrosauridae 438(26) John R. Horner David B. Weishampel Catherine A. Forster Pachycephalosauria 464(14) Teresa Maryanska Ralph E. Chapman David B. Weishampel Basal Ceratopsia 478(16) You Hailu Peter Dodson Ceratopsidae 494(23) Peter Dodson Catherine A. Forster Scott D. Sampson SECTION II Dinosaur Distribution and Biology Dinosaur Distribution 517(90) David B. Weishampel Paul M. Barrett Rodolfo A. Coria Jean Le Loeuff Xu Xing Zhao Xijin Ashok Sahni Elizabeth M. P. Gomani Christopher R. Noto Dinosaur Taphonomy 607(7) Anthony R. Fiorillo David A. Eberth Dinosaur Paleoecology 614(13) David E. Fastovsky Joshua B. Smith Mesozoic Biogeography of Dinosauria 627(16) Thomas R. Holtz Jr. Ralph E. Chapman Matthew C. Lamanna Physiology of Nonavian Dinosaurs 643(17) Anusuya Chinsamy Willem J. Hillenius Dinosaur Physiology 660(12) Kevin Padian John R. Horner Dinosaur Extinction 672(13) J. David Archibald David E. Fastovsky Literature Cited 685(90) Contributors 775(2) Genera and Species Index 777(36) Stratigraphic and Geographic Index 813(22) Subject Index 835