Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Varying Form of Title: | Insects, disease, and death in the Cretaceous
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| Other authors / contributors: | Poinar, Roberta.
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| ISBN: | 9781400835690
1400835690
1282531662
9781282531666
9786612531668
6612531665
9780691124315
0691124310
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-252) and index.
English.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | This book reveals that T. rex was not the only killer in the Cretaceous: insects--from biting sand flies to disease-causing parasites--dominated life on the planet and played a significant role in the life and death of the dinosaurs. Analyzing exotic insects fossilized in Cretaceous amber at three major deposits in Lebanon, Burma, and Canada, the authors reconstruct the complex ecology of a hostile prehistoric world inhabited by voracious swarms of insects. They draw upon tantalizing new evidence from their discoveries of disease-producing vertebrate pathogens in Cretaceous blood-sucking flies, as well as intestinal worms and protozoa found in fossilized dinosaur excrement, to provide a unique view of how insects infected with malaria, leishmania, and other pathogens, together with intestinal parasites, could have devastated dinosaur populations.--From publisher description.
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| Other form: | Print version: Poinar, George O. What bugged the dinosaurs? Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2008 9780691124315
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