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George Poinar, Jr. and Roberta Poinar ; with photographs and drawings by the authors.Insects, disease, and death in the Cretaceous

Princeton University Press

c2008

x, 264 p., 16 p. of plates ill. (some col.), maps 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-252) and index. , Fossils : a time capsule -- The Cretaceous : a time of change -- Herbivory -- Dinosaurs competing with insects -- Did dinosaurs or insects "invent" flowering plants? -- Pollination -- Blights and diseases of Cretaceous plants -- The Cretaceous Age of chimeras and other oddities -- Sanitary engineers of the Cretaceous -- The case for entomophagy among dinosaurs -- Gorging on dinosaurs -- Biting midges -- Sand flies -- Mosquitoes -- Blackflies -- Horseflies and deerflies -- Fleas and lice -- Ticks and mites -- Parasitic worms -- The discovery of Cretaceous diseases -- Diseases and the evolution of pathogens -- Insects : the ultimate survivors -- Extinctions and the K/T boundary -- Appendix A. Cretaceous Hexapoda -- Appendix B. Key factors contributing to the survival of terrestrial animals -- Appendix C. Problems with evaluating the fossil record and extinctions.

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