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FRASER, N. 2007. Dawn of the Dinosaurs. Life in the Triassic. Illustrated by Douglas Henderson. xvi + 310 pp.

Bloomington, Indianapolis: Indiana University Press. Price US $49.95, £27.00 (hard covers). ISBN 9780 253 34652 0.

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In many ways, the Triassic is the forgotten period of the Mesozoic. Most popular accounts of Earth history refer to it only in passing, as either a transitional interval that witnessed the recovery of the Earth’s biota from the ravages of the end-Permian extinctions, or as the time in which that most charismatic of groups, the dinosaurs, first appeared. In addition, there is a widespread perception that most Triassic terrestrial environments were parched deserts that were almost devoid of life, a picture reinforced by artists’ renderings of landscapes containing a lone archosaur hunting amongst doleful, barren sand dunes. Nick Fraser’s book is a . . . [Full Text of this Article]