The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia edited by Michael Benton,
Mikhail Shishkin, David Unwin and Evgenii Kurochkin, Cambridge University Press,
£90, ISBN 0521554764
THE best-known dinosaur fossils represent only a small slice of the Mesozoic
world. Famous species such as Tyrannosaurus rex, triceratops, apatosaurus (often
misnamed brontosaurus) and stegosaurus all lived in western North America, while
iguanodon was a European native. Over the past 20 years or so we’ve been
fascinated by the rich hordes of new discoveries from Africa, Argentina and
China.
But there’s more. A whole host of hitherto unknown fossils have arrived. The
Age of…
