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Acrocanthosaurus Inside and Out

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By (author): Kenneth Carpenter

How can paleontologists know what a living dinosaur was like more than a hundred million years ago, particularly when only partial skeletons remain? Focusing on one large carnivorous dinosaur, Acrocanthosaurus (high-spined lizard), paleontologist Kenneth Carpenter explains the process, pairing scholarly findings with more than 75 color illustrations to reconstruct Acro before readers eyes. In Acrocanthosaurus Inside and Out, he offers the most complete portrait possible of this fascinating dinosaurs appearance, biology, and behavior.

Acrocanthosaurussimilar in size to its later cousin Tyrannosaurus rex, but studded with large spinesroamed what is now the south-central United States 110 to 115 million years ago, during the Early Cretaceous. Carpenter worked on the most complete of the Acrocanthosaurus skeletons (nicknamed Fran) that has been found. Here he describes the techniques that tell us about Acros biological makeup, movements, and habits. Studies of joints reveal the range of possible motion, while bumps, ridges, and scars on the bones show where muscles, ligaments, and tendons attached. CT scans allow us to peer into the braincase, while microscopes afford a cross-sectional view of bones. These findings in turn offer an idea of how Acro stalked and ate its prey.

Scientific evidence beyond the fossils provides avenues for further inquiry: What does the sedimentary rock encasing Frans bones tell us about Acros environment? What does our knowledge of Acros distant relatives, such as crocodilians and birds, imply about its heart and other soft tissues? Can our understanding of other animals explain Acros huge spines?

Carpenter distills all this information into a clear, accessible, engaging account that will appeal to general readers and scholars alike. As the first book-length work on Acrocanthosaurus, this volume introduces a prehistoric giant that once stalked Texas and Oklahoma and offers a rare, firsthand glimpse into the trials and triumphs of paleontology. See more
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Product Details
  • Weight: 345g
  • Dimensions: 156 x 235mm
  • Publication Date: 30 Dec 2023
  • Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780806191546

About Kenneth Carpenter

Kenneth Carpenter is the Director and Curator of the Prehistoric Museum of Utah State UniversityEastern. He received the Ph.D. in geology from the University of Colorado in 1996. From 1989 until 2010 he worked at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. He has written hundreds of both scholarly and popular articles and encyclopedia entries on dinosaurs. Among other books he is the author of Eggs Nests and Baby Dinosaurs: A Look at Dinosaur Reproduction.

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