New MANIAC book is out!

[David Marjanovic <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>]

MANIAC famously means "Maniraptorans Are Not In Actuality Coelurosaurs", 
and that's what this new book seems to say:

David Burnham (2 February 2010): Maniraptoran "Dinosaurs": 
Paleoenvironment, Paleoecology, and Evolution. VDM ( = Verlag Dr. 
Müller). Paperback, 128 pp.

Yes, scare quotes in the title. Yes, a German publisher.

The "short description" by amazon.de, which is probably the blurb 
supplied by the author:

> >
Maniraptora includes the first known bird, Archaeopteryx, the small, 
four-winged, feathered glider, Microraptor, and the terrestrial runner 
Bambiraptor. All are considered important links in the origin of flight 
and a subsequent transition to terrestriality. In cladistic 
classifications, dromaeosaurid ?dinosaurs? were only considered 
terrestrial cursors. The discovery of a gliding stage within the 
dromaeosaurs confounds the currently suggested evolutionary framework 
and lacks predictability for origin of flight scenarios. Paleoclimate 
was a significant factor for evolution of dinosaur-like birds and 
birdlike dinosaurs during the Mesozoic. This time is characterized by 
faunal and floral changes reflecting the cooling trend at end of the 
Cretaceous. The environment opened up making it difficult for poor 
fliers and gliders as forested areas became less dense. Secondarily 
flightless terrestrial forms and birds with full flight capabilities 
survived best in these new environments. Eventually, birds of modern 
aspect probably replaced the primitive maniraptorans since they were 
more efficient fliers and had evolved higher metabolic rates suitable 
for the cooler climate.
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The question marks around "dinosaurs" are in the original and must have 
been formatted scare quotes. Lack of italics also in the original.

Looks fractally wrong to me. Cooling trend? The evidence for polar ice 
is from the Aptian and Albian, isn't it? There's none from the Campanian 
or Maastrichtian, AFAIK.