Bollettino della Società paleontologica italiana
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Page : 280 pages
File Size : 46,89 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Paleontology
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Page : 280 pages
File Size : 46,89 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Paleontology
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Author : Società paleontologica italiana
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Page : 100 pages
File Size : 30,72 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Paleontology
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Abstracts in Italian and English.
Author : Società paleontologica italiana
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File Size : 10,59 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Paleontology
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Author : Società Paleontologica Italiana (Modena).
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Page : 70 pages
File Size : 21,95 MB
Release : 2013
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Author : Società paleontologica italiana
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Page : 61 pages
File Size : 30,44 MB
Release : 1985
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Author : Paola Monegatti
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Page : 310 pages
File Size : 32,7 MB
Release : 1997
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Author : Società paleontologica italiana
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Page : 160 pages
File Size : 18,29 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Paleontology
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Author : Società paleontologica italiana
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Page : 40 pages
File Size : 42,95 MB
Release : 1968
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Author : Antonietta Rosso
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Page : pages
File Size : 38,99 MB
Release : 2013
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Author : Eric Buffetaut
Publisher : Geological Society of London
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 16,91 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781862391437
Pterosaurs were a peculiar group of Mesozoic vertebrates, which acquired the ability to fly in an original way, using a membrane attached to a single finger of the hand. Ever since the first description of a pterosaur skeleton in 1784, these remarkable animals have elicited much discussion and controversy among palaeontologists, and many basic questions about their origin, evolution and biology remain disputed. In the last few years, interest in pterosaurs has been revived by numerous discoveries of new and sometimes remarkably preserved specimens, which have enlarged and changed our picture of this group. The volume begins with descriptions of several new pterosaurs from the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous of Europe, North and South America, and Africa. Following this, alternative hypotheses of pterosaur phytogeny and evolution are put forward. Several papers discuss the functional anatomy of pterosaurs and its implications for aerial locomotion. The study of pterosaur footprints provides important new evidence concerning their terrestrial locomotion, and this approach is used in several contributions. A developing aspect of pterosaur research is bone histology, as shown by the final papers in this collection.