The meat-eating dinosaurs, or Theropoda, include some of the fiercest predators that ever lived. Organized into three parts, this book explores morphological details that are important for understanding theropod systematics. It also focuses on specific regions of theropod anatomy and biomechanics, and examines theropods as living creatures.

ContributorsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionI. Theropods Old and New1. Tibiae of Small Theropod Dinosaurs from Southern England: From the Middle Jurassic of Stonesfield near Oxford and the Lower Cretaceous of the Isle of Wight Peter M. Galton and Ralph E. Molnar2. New Small Theropod from the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation of Wyoming Kenneth Carpenter, Clifford Miles, and Karen Cloward3. Redescription of the Small Maniraptoran Theropods Ornitholestes and Coelurus from the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation of Wyoming Kenneth Carpenter, Clifford Miles, John H. Ostrom, and Karen Cloward4. The Enigmatic Theropod Dinosaur Erectopus superbus (Sauvage 1882) from the Lower Albian of Louppy-le-Château (Meuse, France) Ronan Allain5. Holotype Braincase of Nothronychus mckinleyi Kirkland and Wolfe 2001 (Theropoda; Therizinosauridae) from the Upper Cretaceous (Turonian) of West-Central New Mexico James I. Kirkland, David K. Smith, and Douglas G. Wolfe6. Anatomy of Harpymimus okladnikovi Barsbold and Perle 1984 (Dinosauria; Theropoda) of Mongolia Yoshitsugu Kobayashi and Rinchen Barsbold7. Theropod Teeth from the Upper Cretaceous (Campanian-Maastrichtian), Big Bend National Park, Texas Julia T. Sankey, Barbara R. Standhardt, and Judith A. Schiebout8. Last Patagonian Non-Avian Theropods Rodolfo A. Coria and Leonardo SalgadoII. Theropod Working Parts9. Enamel Microstructure Variation within the Theropoda Kathy Stokosa10. Bite Me: Biomechanical Models of Theropod Mandibles and Implications for Feeding Behavior François Therrien, Donald M. Henderson, and Christopher B. Ruff11. Body and Tail Posture in Theropod Dinosaurs Gregory S. Paul12. Furcula of Tyrannosaurus rex Peter Larson and J. Keith Rigby Jr.13. The Pectoral Girdle and the Forelimb of Heyuannia (Dinosauria: Oviraptorosauria) Junchang Lü, Dong Huang, and Licheng QiuIII. Theropods as Living Animals14. Sexual Dimorphism in the Early Jurassic Theropod Dinosaur Dilophosaurus and a Comparison with Other Related Forms Robert Gay15. Sexual Selection and Sexual Dimorphism in Theropods Ralph E. Molnar16. An Unusual Multi-Individual Tyrannosaurid Bonebed in the Two Medicine Formation (Late Cretaceous, Campanian) of Montana (USA) Philip J. Currie, David Trexler, Eva B. Koppelhus, Kelly Wicks, and Nate Murphy17. Evidence for Predator-Prey Relationships: Examples for Allosaurus and Stegosaurus Kenneth Carpenter, Frank Sanders, Lorrie A. McWhinney, and Lowell Wood18. Theropod Paleopathology: State-of-the-Art Review Bruce Rothschild and Darren H. TankeIndex