This book got its start about seven years ago when Robert Bakker-the progressive dinosaurologist I studied with for many years-suggested that I draw up illustrations of some predatory dinosaur skeletons. About the same time, I started looking into the problem of bird origins, which I believed was tied to dinosaurs. One thing led to another and after a while I realized I had enough material available to put together a book on the dinosaurian meat eaters.

Modelling and prediction of spatially distributed data such as the secondary cassiterite mineral distributions are often affected by spatial autocorrelation (SAC); a phenomenon that violates attributes data independence in space, which leads to type1 errors in classical statistics and overfitting or underfitting in machine learning (ML) classification respectively. The concept of overfitting and underfitting of spatially distributed datasets in an ML classification has not been properly addressed by the traditional random holdout technique of model validation, and this is a challenge to the assessment of predictive spatial model performance in spatially distributed datasets.

Palaeontologists can no more stop digging up fossils than stop breathing – it’s an obsession! Australasian palaeontologists are particularly driven to do this because the biological histories of Australia and its smaller neighbour, Zealandia, are the least understood of all the occupied continents.

В сборник вошли статьи, посвященные разным аспектам палеонтологии и охраны уникальных местонахождений ископаемых животных и растений. Важное место в книге отведено вопросам музееведения, хранения и экспонирования палеонтологических коллекций, а также методическим приемам изучения различных ископаемых остатков.  Рассмотрены вопросы морфологии и систематики разных групп ископаемых организмов:  цианобионтов, аммоноидей, высших растений (сфенофиллов, птеридоспермов, гинкгофитов).
Книга предназначена для специалистов-палеонтологов, сотрудников профильных и региональных музеев, а также всех лиц, интересующихся вопросами естествознания и историей органического мира Земли.