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The Jurassic: The Mammal Explosion - History and Analysis of the Discovery Today Challenging the Conventional View of Our Ancestors from the Early Jurassic Onward

by Georges P. Odier with Stephen T. Hasiotis Phd, Spencer G. Lucas Phd and Tamsin McCormick Phd; Foreword by Colin Egan

194 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); includes black and white images and black and white photography; catalogue #06-0769; ISBN 1-4120-9013-X; US$18.00, C$20.70, EUR14.79, £10.35

If one still believes that we, and our fellow mammals, stem from a handful of mice 65 million years ago, this book should help dispel this specious nonsense.

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Conventional paleontology, solely based on the body fossil record, had claimed - if not imposed - that the entire contemporary Mammal Class, from mice to whales, including primates from whom we stem, had evolved from a small group of shrew-like early mammals known as Morganucodonts, following the demise of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. This theory had surmised that predatory dinosaurs, known as Theropods, had fed upon early mammals from the beginning of the Jurassic to the end of the Cretaceous, hereby keeping their size and numbers small, rare, nocturnal, and insectivores. And that the only ones that managed to survive this intense predation up until the demise of the dinosaurs were these very small and fossorial Morganucodonts.

This book describes the discovery made in the late 1990's in southeastern Utah that challenges, if not confirms, that early mammals had not only diversified by the very beginning of the Jurassic from very small prey animals to fairly large carnivorous species, but were, numerically speaking, the dominant terrestrial species from the Jurassic onward to modern times. This book further heralds the use of inter-disciplinary determinations to solve complex issues as the one posed by the dinosaurs-mammals relationship.

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About the Author

Georges Odier is a French-born field researcher currently based in Moab, Utah. Primarily an analyst, his field research has, since 2000, mainly been focused on Jurassic mammal tracks and burrows. He is the author of The Jurassic - A New Beginning? 2003, also published by Trafford Publishing. A book discussing new aspects of the Jurassic based on discoveries made in-around southeastern Utah.

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