Title:
Digging for stegosaurus / by Thomas R. Holtz, Jr., PhD.
ISBN:
9781491421246
9781491423653
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
North Mankato, Minnesota : Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint, [2015]
Physical Description:
32 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 22 x 27 cm.
Contents:
Tilgate Forest and Swindon, United Kingdom : the discovery of armored dinosaurs -- Morrison and Garden Park, Colorado; and Como Bluff, Wyoming : the shingled reptile -- Como Bluff, Wyoming, and Garden Park, Colorado : a complete Stegosaurus : the plate puzzle -- Como Bluff, Wyoming : tiny heads and "bottom brains"? -- Como Bluff, Wyoming : two legs or four? -- Tendaguru Hill, Tanzania, and Zigong, China : cousins in other lands -- Como Bluff, Wyoming : what are the plates for? -- Garden Park, Colorado : the thagomizer -- Garden Park, Colorado, and Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry, Utah : Stegosaurus defense -- Miragaia, Portugal : a long-necked Portuguese cousin -- Shell, Wyoming, and Morrison, Colorado : new discoveries -- About Stegosaurus.
Summary:
"Provides an annotated timeline of the discovery of Stegosaurus including details on the scientists, dig sites, fossils, and other findings that have shaped our knowledge of this dinosaur"-- Provided by publisher.
Program Information:
Accelerated Reader MG 6.2 0.5 507118
Interest age level:
Ages 5-10.
Interest grade level:
K to grade 3.
Audience:
1020L Lexile
OCLC Number:
ocn886881201
Availability:
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