Hey everyone. The moment we've been
waiting for is finally here! No, not the theropod Gaia volume. But
something almost as good- The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and
Mongolia!
Yes, available online from Cambridge University
Press at this link: http://www.cup.org/ .
Just search for the title and there it is.
Only $140.00 and 544 pages long! I've ordered mine.
Here's the contents:
Acknowledgements/Introduction, Michael J.
Benton, et al.
/ 1. The history of excavation of
Permo-Triassic vertebrates from Eastern Europe, Vitalii G. Ochev and Mikhail V.
Surkov
/ 2. The amniote faunas of the Russian
Permian, Sean P. Modesto and N. Rybczynski
/ 3. Permian and Triassic temnospondyls from
Russia, Mikhail A. Shishkin, Igor V. Novikov, and Yuri M.
Gubin
/ 4. Permian and Triassic anthracosaurs from
Eastern Europe, Igor V. Novikov, Mikhail A. Shishkin, and Valerii K.
Golubev
/ 5. The Russian pareiasaurs, Michael S. Y.
Lee
/ 6. Mammal-like Reptiles from Russia,
Bernard Battail and Mikhail V. Surkov
/ 7. Tetrapod biostratigraphy of the Triassic
of Eastern Europe, Mikhail A. Shishkin et al.
/ 8. Early archosaurs from Russia, David J.
Gower and Andrei G. Sennikov
/ 9. Procolophonids from the Permo-Triassic
of Russia, Patrick S. Spencer and Michael J. Benton
/ 10. Enigmatic small reptiles from the
Middle-Late Triassic of Kirgizia, David M. Unwin, Vladimir R. Alifanov, and
Michael J. Benton
/ 11. Mesozoic marine reptiles of Russia and
other former Soviet republics, Glenn W. Storrs, Maxim S. Arkhangelskii, and
Vladimir M. Efimov
/ 12. Asiatic dinosaur rush, Edwin H.
Colbert
/ 13. The Russian-Mongolian expeditions and
research in vertebrate palaeontology, Evgenii N. Kurochkin and Rinchen
Barsbold
/ 14. The Cretaceous stratigraphy and
palaeobiogeography of Mongolia, Vladimir F. Shuvalov
/ 15. Lithostratigraphy and sedimentary
settings of the Cretaceous dinosaur beds of Mongolia, Tom
Jerzykiewicz
/ 16. Mesozoic amphibians from Mongolia and
the Central Asiatic republics, Mikhail A. Shishkin
/ 17. Mesozoic turtles from Mongolia,
Vladimir B. Sukhanov
/ 18. Lizards from the Cretaceous of
Mongolia, Vladimir R. Alifanov
/ 19. Choristoderes from the Cretaceous of
Northern Asia, Glenn W. Storrs and Mikhail B. Efimov
/ 20. Mesozoic Crocodilians of Northern Asia,
Glenn W. Storrs and Mikhail B. Efimov
/ 21. Pterosaurs from the Jurassic and
Cretaceous of the FSU and Mongolia, Natasha N. Bakhurina and David M.
Unwin
/ 22. Theropod dinosaurs from the Cretaceous
of Mongolia, Phillip J. Currie
/ 23. Sauropod dinosaurs from the Cretaceous
of Mongolia, Teresa Maryanska
/ 24. Ornithopod dinosaurs from the
Cretaceous of Mongolia, Central Asia, and Siberia, Hans-Dieter Sues and David B.
Norman
/ 25. Marginocephalians of Mongolia, Paul C.
Sereno
/ 26. Ankylosaur dinosaurs from the
Cretaceous of Mongolia, Tat'yana A. Tumanova
/ 27. Mesozoic Birds from the FSU and
Mongolia, Evgenii N. Kurochkin
/ 28. Eggs and nests of dinosaurs and birds
in the Cretaceous of Mongolia, Konstantin E. Mikhailov
/ 29. Mammals from the Mesozoic of Mongolia,
Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska, Boris A. Trofimov, and Michael J.
Novacek
/ 30. Mammals from the Mesozoic of Kirghizia,
Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Tajikistan, Alexander O.
Aver'yanovn
This contains descriptions of Microcephale
(Sereno 2000), Longisquama and many others. Now if only Mesozoic Birds:
Above the Heads of Dinosaurs and The Dinosauria 2 could get
published.
Mickey
Mortimer
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