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INDEX
Page numbers in italics indicate illustrations.
Abel, Othenio, 10, 86, 87, 105
Abelisaurus, 110
acipenseriforms (chondrosteans), 82, 83
actinistian fish, 154–56
Actinopterygii, 82–83
Acynodon, 67, 68, 70
Adriatic Sea, 96
Aegean Sea, 96
Africa, 93, 95, 105, 112, 117, 169, 170, 179
agamids, 73
Ajkaceratops kozmai, 109
Alamosaurus, 28, 169
Albanerpeton, 81, 82
Albanerpetontidae, 80, 81, 81
Albania, 11–14
Albertosaurus, 110
Albian, 109, 217n15, 218n14
Alectrosaurus, 110
alligator lizards, 73
Alligatoroidea, 71
alligators, 19
Allodaposuchus, 71, 179
Allodaposuchus precedens, 67, 69, 69–71
allopatry, 165
Allosaurus, 32
Alps, 94
Alp-Tethys oceanic basin, 95
Altirhinus, 52
Alvarezsauridae, 31
alvarezsaurids, 37
ammonites, 98, 117
Amniota, 60
Ampelosaurus, 28, 107, 178, 179, 181
Ampelosaurus atacis, 110, 180
amphibians, 80–82, 107–9
Amphisbaenia, 73
Anabisetia, 45, 158, 160, 161, 169
anatomy, 21–22, 114
angiosperms, 102, 103, 188
Anguimorpha, 72, 73
Anhanguera, 64
Ankylopollexia, 45
Ankylosauria, 11, 25, 38–43, 141, 161
Ankylosauridae, 39, 110
Ankylosaurus, 39
Anura, 80
Anurognathus, 64
Apatosaurus, 23, 133
Apoda, 80
Aptian, 95
Apulia, 96–98, 105
Apuseni Mountains, 15, 88, 94, 97, 101
Arabia, 93
Aralosaurus, 52
Archaeopterydactyloidea, 64
Archaeopteryx, 19, 30, 31
Archosauria, 18, 19
Argentina, 27, 117, 161
Argentinosaurus, 117
arthropods, 122
Asia, 27
comparisons with, 110, 169
conditions in, 170, 171
and Hadro-sauridae, 171, 174
and migration, 182, 183, 189, 192
and Transylvanian insularity, 112, 167
Auca Mahuevo, 56–58
Aude Valley, 174
Australia, 169, 170
Australopithecus afarensis, 18, 19
Australopithecus africanus, 19
Austria, 43, 109
Austrochelyidae, 76
Austrosaurus, 169
Aves, 18, 33
Avetheropoda, 31
Avialae, 31, 37
axolotl (Ambystoma mexicanum), 118, 119, 120
Azhdarchidae, 64, 65, 67, 109, 141, 184
Azhdarcho, 64
Azhdarchoidea, 64
Bactrosaurus, 52, 157, 171, 172
Bactrosaurus johnsoni, 52
Bagaceratops kozmai, 176
Bakonydraco galaczi, 109
Bakony Mountains, 176
Balaur bondoc, 37, 38
Balkan Mountains, 94
Bărăbanţ, 15, 46, 73
Barbatodon transsylvanicus, 77, 79, 81
bat, 123
Batrachia, 80
Becklesius hoffstetteri, 72
Becklesius nopcsai, 72
beetle, dermestic, 104
Belgium, 108
Belgorod, 108, 109
benettitaleans, 102
Betasuchus bredai, 108
Bicuspidon hatzegiensis, 72
biogeography, 169–71, 184
birds, 19, 30, 31, 36
Black Sea, 1, 96, 108
Boccaccio, Giovanni, 113
body size, 117, 118
and colonization, 142, 143, 185, 191, 192
and croco-dilians, 118, 141
and Euhadrosauria, 132
and fauna, 86–87, 106
and France, 137
and Iguanodon, 45
and Iguanodontia, 130
and Mag-yarosaurus, 187
and migration, 143–45, 187–89
reasons for, 87, 118, 141, 142
and selection, 185
and Struthiosaurus, 187
and Telmatosaurus, 128–32, 187, 189
and Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus, 49
and Thero-poda, 145
and Zalmoxes, 46, 187. See also dwarfism; growth and development
Bohemian Massif, 102
Borod Basin, 32
bowfin fish, 150
Brachiosaurus, 28, 133
Brachylophosaurus, 50
Bradycneme, 36
Broili, Ferdinand, 10
Brookes, Richard, 114
Buckland, William, 114–15, 116
Buffetaut, Eric, 25, 65, 70, 175
Bulgaria, 109
Bunzel, Emmanuel, 39, 40, 61
caecilians, 80
Camarasaurus, 28
Campanian, 95, 97
Campanian–Maastrichtian interval, 95
Camptosaurus, 25, 43–45, 129, 159, 160, 187
Carcharodontosaurus, 30, 117
Carnosauria, 31
Carroll, Lewis, 194–95
Casichelydia, 76
Ćáslav, 109
Caucasus, 93
Caudata, 80
Cenozoic era, 94, 153
centipedes, 122
Cephalopoda, 19
Ceratopsia, 25, 111, 124, 161
Ceratosauria, 31
Cerna River, 87
chameleons, 73
character change, 131, 156–58
rates of, 150, 151, 159–62, 171. See also evolution
character optimization, 126–28, 130, 131, 170, 216n70
Cherven Bryag, 109
chimpanzee, 119, 120, 121
Choceň, 60
choristoderans, 108
cladistics, 16, 18, 152, 168, 170, 171
cladogenesis, 165
cladogram, 18, 20, 21, 126–28, 151, 152
clam, unionid, 104
clubmoss (Lycopodiaceae), 103, 103
Cochirleni, 204n4
Codrea, Vlad, 15, 34, 77
coelacanth, 148, 149, 154
Coelophysoidea, 31
Coelurosauria, 31, 37
coevolution, 196, 197
colonization, 162, 168, 186
and body size, 142, 143, 185, 191–92
and clutch size, 191–92
and continental configurations, 182
and diversity, 106
in Europe, 185
and founder effect, 166
and loss of genetic variation, 186
and sexual maturation, 186, 191
success in, 167, 183, 184, 186, 192
Comoros Islands, 148, 149, 162
Compsognathidae, 31
Compsognathus, 30, 31
conifers, 102, 104
continental drift, 89–91
Cope, Edward Drinker, 117, 142
Cope’s Rule, 117, 142
Cornet, 204n4
Courtenay-Latimer, Marjorie, 147–48, 154
Cretaceous, 93
ephemeral terrestrial habitats of, 159
flora of, 102
habitats of, 105
and hadrosaurids, 52
and isolation and colonization of Transylva-nian region, 145
mammals in, 77
and multituberculates, 77
and ornitho-pods, 45
and Pterosauria, 60, 64
and sauropods, 28
and Southern Carpathian Mountains, 94, 97
and titano-saurs, 27
Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary, 65, 77, 198
Crimea, 108
crocodilians, 3, 19, 98, 179, 180
and Al-lodaposuchus precedens, 68–70
body size of, 118, 141
in Europe, 107–9
eu-suchian, 109
feeding by, 72
growth of, 184
social behavior of, 72
Crocodilus affulvensis, 68
Crocodylia, 18, 19, 71
Crocodyloidea, 71
Cryptodira, 76, 77
Csiki, Zoltan, 27, 34, 44, 65, 124
Ctenodactylidae, 64
cuckoo (Cuculus canorus), 197
Cuvier, Georges, 114
cycads, 102
Czechia, 60, 102, 109, 211n57
Danube, 1
Daspletosaurus, 110
deer, 119
Deinonychus, 30, 36
Deinotherium giganteum, 114
Densuş, 15
Densuş-Ciula Formation, 37, 63, 67, 100–102, 159
Devonian, 93
Diacryptodira, 76
Dietz, Robert S., 91, 92
Dinornis maximus, 22
Dinosauria, 18, 19, 22–25, 116, 142
Diplodocoidea, 28, 110
Diplodocus, 117, 133
diversity, 16, 106, 109, 110, 165, 169
Djungaripteroidea, 64
dogs, 122
Dollo, Louis, 10, 10
Dollodon, 52
donkeys, 119
Doratodon, 67, 68, 70, 71
dortokids, 77
Drasković, Ludwig Graf, 11–12
Dromaeosauridae, 31, 33, 34, 36, 36–38
Dromaeosaurus, 35
Dryomorpha, 45, 158
Dryosaurus, 45, 159, 160, 187
Dsungaripteridae, 64
Dsungaripteroidea, 63, 64
Dsungaripterus, 64
dwarfism, 142–46, 184–87, 191, 192, 213n29
and endocrine system, 87, 118, 141, 150
and femoral structure, 124, 125
and insular isolation, 86, 87, 142, 143. See also body size; growth and development
Early Cretaceous, 169, 179
migrations in, 183, 184
and Neotethyan Ocean, 97
and Severin Basin, 95
and Telmatosaurus, 159
Ebro High, 97
Edmontonia, 39, 40
eggs, 107, 108, 190–92
angusticanalicu-late, 55
and clutch size and colonization, 191, 192
dendrospherulitic, 55
and eggshell construction, 54, 55, 58
hatchlings from, 55, 56
nests of, 53–58
elephants, 114, 119, 143–45
Elopteryx, 36
Elopteryx nopcsai, 32–33, 34, 36
embryos, 55–58
enantiornithine bird, 109
England, 98, 115, 179, 211n57
Eolambia, 52
Eolambia caroljonesa, 171
Euhadrosauria, 52, 131, 171–74, 189
and body size, 132
clutch size of, 192
ghost lineage of, 157
Euoplocephalus, 39
euornithopod, 176
Euramerica, 179, 180
Euronychodon, 36, 36, 37
Europe, 27, 93, 97, 174, 182
and dinosaur distribution, 170, 171, 181
and migration, 182, 185, 189
as source area, 169, 178, 179
Eusuchia, 70, 71, 109, 179
evolution, 16–18, 21, 120, 142, 150, 151, 154, 156. See also character change; morphological change, rates of
Fărcădin, 87
Fennosarmatia, 97
fern (Polypodiaceae), 103
fern (pteridophytes), 102
fern, filicalean (Gleicheniaceae), 103
fern, filicalean (Polypodiaceae), 103
Fontllonga hadrosaurid, 174
foraminifera, 98
France, 137, 169, 174, 175, 182
and Ampelosaurus, 110, 178, 181
fauna of, 106–10, 175
Fritsch, Anton, 60
frogs, 80, 81
Gallodactylidae, 64
gar (Lepisosteus oculatus), 83
Gargoyleosaurus, 39
Gasparinisaura, 45, 169
Gastonia, 39
Gavialoidea, 71
Gavials, 19
Gekkota, 73
Germanodactylus, 64
ghost lineage, 151–54, 171
ghost lineage duration (GLD), 152, 153, 159, 160
Giganotosaurus, 30, 32, 110, 117
gigantism, 86, 87, 117, 141, 142, 145
Gila monsters, 73
ginkgoes, 102
Gobisaurus, 39, 169
Gondwana, 27, 93, 171, 178
gorilla, 119, 120
Gosau Beds (Austria), 43
Gosau fauna, 61, 108
Gould, Stephen J., 120, 146, 163, 199
Grigorescu, Dan, 15, 33, 34, 65, 101, 124
growth and development: acceleration of, 122, 123
of crocodilians, 184
of Hadrosauridae, 126
of Hatzego-pteryx, 184
among herbivores, 145
of Hypsilophodon, 137–40
lines of arrested (LAGs), 124
of Magyaro-saurus, 126, 133–37, 141, 144, 146, 184
of Magyarosaurus dacus, 125
of Mammalia, 184
of ornithopods, 125
of Orodromeus, 137–40
of pterosaurs, 184
of Rhabdodon, 137–40
of sauropods, 133–37
and selection, 185
of Struthiosaurus, 184
of Tel-matosaurus, 126, 128–32, 135, 137, 141, 144, 146, 184
of Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus, 124–25
of Tenon-tosaurus, 138–40
of Theropoda, 124, 184
of titanosaurian sauropods, 126
of titanosaurs, 137
of turtles, 184
of Tyrannosaurus rex, 124
of Zalmoxes, 126, 137–40, 146
of Zalmoxes ro-bustus, 125, 139–41, 184
of Zalmoxes shqiperorum, 138–40, 184. See also body size; dwarfism
Groza, Ioan, 15
Gryposaurus, 53
Gymnophiona, 80
Hadrosauridae: cranial adornments of, 53
dentition of, 45, 51, 129–32, 187–90, 192
eggs of, 56
in Europe, 108, 109, 174
evolutionary relationships in, 52
Fontllonga, 174
growth of, 126
and Ornithischia, 23
and Para-rhabdodon, 174
perinatal bones of, 58
reproductive biology of, 190–92
and Rhabdodontidae, 46
and social behavior, 53
source area of, 169, 171–72, 174
in Spain, 176
and Telmatosaurus, 132, 157
and Telmatosau
rus transsylvanicus, 49–51
and Tethyshadros insularis, 172
Hadrosaurinae, 50–52, 131
Hadrosauroidea, 52, 109
Haeckel, Ernst, 120
Haeckel’s Biogenic Law, 120
Hainina, 77
Harrison, Colin J. O., 33
Haţeg: amphibians of, 81–82
an-kylosaur material from, 40
drom-aeosaurid from, 34, 35
eggs from, 58
fauna of, 15
formations in, 99–101
fossils from, 2, 25, 32, 36
geography of, 98–105
geology of, 100
history of, 6
and insular isolation, 84–88
as island, 105–11
mammals of, 77–81
mesoeucrocodilians of, 67–73
pal-eoecological context of, 16
perinatal bones known from, 58
and plate tectonics, 97
pterosaurs from, 59–67
Rhabdodon priscus from, 43
river systems of latest Cretaceous in, 101
squamates of, 72–77
Struthiosaurus transylvanicus from, 38
and Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus, 49
turtles from, 73–77
work in, 15
Zalmoxes from, 46
Hatzegobatrachus grigorescui, 81
Hatzegopteryx, 64, 66, 72, 141, 184
Hatzegopteryx thambema, 65–66
Hennig, Willi, 18, 151
Heptasteornis, 36
Heptasteornis andrewsi, 33, 36
Herrerasaurus, 24
hesperornithids, 109
heterochrony, 119–26, 134, 144, 146, 168
hippos, dwarfed, 119
historical contingency, 168, 190, 198, 199
Holden, John C., 91, 92
Hominidae, 18, 19
Homo erectus, 19
homology, 17–21
homoplasies, 19–21
Homo sapiens, 18, 19, 118
Horner, Jack, 58, 190
horsetails (sphenophytes), 102
Huene, Friedrich von, 11, 11, 25, 27
humans, 119–21
Hunedoara County, 2
Hungarosaurus tormai, 109, 176
Hungary, 108, 109, 175, 176, 181
Hylaeochampsa, 179
Hylaeosaurus, 38, 169
Hypacrosaurus, 190
hypermorphosis, 122
Hypsilophodon, 44, 45, 137–40, 169
Hypsilophodon foxii, 139
Hypsilophodontidae, 44
Iberia, 97, 107, 182
Iguania, 73
iguanians, 73
iguanids, 73
Iguanodon: body size of, 45
and hadrosaurids, 131, 187
lower teeth of, 128, 129
and migration, 169
as or-nithischian, 23
recognition of, 116
and Rhabdodon, 43, 44
and Rhabdo-dontidae, 46, 160
teeth of, 130
and Telmatosaurus, 49, 50
Iguanodon bernissartensis, 52
Iguanodontia: body size of, 130
and Hadrosauridae, 171, 187
and Or-nithopoda, 45
rate of evolutionary change of, 160
and Rhabdodontidae, 46, 159, 176
teeth of, 130, 131
and Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus, 157
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