Umfang:
XVII, 386 S.
,
Ill., Kt.
,
23cm
ISBN:
9780300117042
,
0300117043
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Pt. one: The Jeffersonians -- Fossil hunters on the frontier -- Big Bone Lick -- Franklin, Jefferson, and the incognitum -- Jefferson's "great-claw" and a world about to change -- The first American dinosaurs: an eighteenth-century mystery story -- Fossils and show business: Mr. Peale's Mastodon -- Pt. two: Fossils and geology -- Fossils and extinction: dangerous ideas -- Mary Anning's world -- An American natural science -- An American geology -- Bad lands: no time for ideas -- Dr. Leidy's dinosaur -- Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden -- Pt. three: Giant Saurians and horned mammals -- Kansas and a new regime -- Entry of the gladiators -- Riding the rails -- The first Yale college expedition -- The competition begins -- Buffalo land: who was Professor Paleozoic? -- 1872: the year of conflict -- The case of the great horned mammals -- Going separate ways -- Two into four won't go -- To the Black Hills -- To the Judith River -- Pt. four: Toward the twentieth century -- The rise of dinosaurs -- The good, the bad, and the ugly -- Going public -- 1890: the end of the beginning -- Appendixes -- The geological column -- Leidy on evolution -- Cope on evolution
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Thomson, Keith The Legacy of the Mastodon New Haven : Yale University Press, 2008 ISBN 9780300151848
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
Nordamerika
;
Fossil
;
Paläontologie
;
Geschichte
;
Nordamerika
;
Mastodon
;
Fossiliensammeln
;
Geschichte 1750-1890
;
USA
;
Paläontologie
;
Geschichte 1750-1890
URL:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0833/2007037329-b.html
URL:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0833/2007037329-d.html
URL:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy0804/2007037329.html
