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A Field Guide/The Princeton Field Guide to Dinosaurs This article was downloaded by: [Mr Darren Naish] On: 21 August 2012, At: 09:10 Publisher: Taylor & Francis Informa Ltd Registered in England and Wales Registered Number: 1072954 Registered office: Mortimer House, 37-41 Mortimer Street, London W1T 3JH, UK Historical Biology: An International Journal of Paleobiology Publication details, including instructions for authors and subscription information: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/ghbi20 Dinosaurs: a field guide/The Princeton field guide to dinosaurs Darren Naish a a Ocean and Earth Science, National Oceanography Centre, Southampton University of Southampton, Southampton, SO14 3ZH, UK E-mail: Version of record first published: 05 Apr 2012 To cite this article: Darren Naish (2012): Dinosaurs: a field guide/The Princeton field guide to dinosaurs, Historical Biology: An International Journal of Paleobiology, DOI:10.1080/08912963.2012.670534 To link to this article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2012.670534 PLEASE SCROLL DOWN FOR ARTICLE Full terms and conditions of use: http://www.tandfonline.com/page/terms-and-conditions This article may be used for research, teaching, and private study purposes. 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Paul, A & C dislike or disagree with what Paul says about dinosaurs Black, London, 2010, 320 pp., £24.95/$35.00 (hardcover), and their biology and evolution, I think that his role in the ISBN 978-1-4081-3074-2 dinosaur renaissance, and especially in the way dinosaurs are portrayed in art and the media, should always be The Princeton field guide to dinosaurs, by Gregory S. credited (Naish 2009). Paul, Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, Furthermore, Paul’s massive influence mostly comes 2010, 320 pp., £24.95/$35.00, ISBN 978-0-6911-3720-9 from the fact that his reconstructions have always been Greg Paul is an independent researcher who specialises on based on an underlying, apparently empirical effort to dinosaurs; he is well known for his popular articles and depict anatomy. In an ideal world, all attempts to books and his technical papers, but in particular for his reconstruct fossil animals would proceed this way; alas, hugely influential artwork. Paul’s most recent book – most illustrators of prehistoric life have done their work by Dinosaurs: A Field Guide (aka The Princeton Field Guide looking at mounted skeletons, guessing the limits of the to Dinosaurs (2010)) – is, simply put, the ultimate Greg surrounding soft tissue and producing the final product Paul book. It is a large (320 pp.), heavily illustrated with little or no recourse to the anatomy of extant animals. catalogue of over 400 reconstructed skeletons, Historically, even those who knew anatomy well – Charles accompanied throughout with life restorations and brief Knight is a classic example – thought it ok to imagine chunks of text which present data on the world’s Mesozoic dinosaurs with massive, flabby bodies and (paradoxically) dinosaur species. The idea that this book might function as small, lizard-like muscles, despite substantial skeletal a ‘field guide’ is of course fanciful, and indeed it is stated evidence to the contrary. In articles, papers and books, Paul early on that the book is intended to be ‘in the style of a argued that one should strive to produce multi-view field guide’. A lengthy introductory section reviews skeletal reconstructions of fossil archosaurs, and that a dinosaur anatomy, biology, evolution, behaviour and the good understanding of the overlying musculature should climate, atmosphere and paleogeography of the Mesozoic. result in a reconstructed form that – bar integument – is Most basic pieces of biographical information about essentially that of the living animal (Paul 1987, 1988, Paul are already well known. Studying informally under 1991). His 1987 ‘rigorous how-to guide’ on the the famously iconoclastic Robert Bakker at Johns Hopkins reconstruction of dinosaurs and other Mesozoic archosaurs University during the 1970s and 1980s, Paul became (Paul 1987) remains a classic that has not really been interested both in the idea that most dinosaurs were bettered, even if it does now require substantial update. metabolically similar to extant mammals and birds, and On the subject of integument, Paul has always been that dinosaurs (and other fossil archosaurs) were being careful to restore his archosaurs with the sort of skin known portrayed inaccurately by other artists. Under Bakker’s from certain rare fossils – not with the imaginary wrinkled, guidance, and inspired by the work of Charles Knight and elephant-like skin so often given to big dinosaurs by naı¨ve other artists interested in anatomy, Paul honed a distinctive Downloaded by [Mr Darren Naish] at 09:10 21 August 2012 artists – or, in the case of smaller or especially bird-like visual style for both the high-fidelity skeletal reconstruc- taxa, with feathery or furry plumes, crests or coats. I am not tions he has become famous for, and for his reconstruc- tions of dinosaurs in their environments. alone in recalling a time when certain paleontologists It is difficult to overstate the impact and significance of decried the reconstructing of small dinosaurs as feathery or Paul’s work. Like it or not, when most of us think about furry as wholly unscientific and as evidence of the dinosaurs (or other Mesozoic archosaurs), the images we obviously inferior intellect and experience of Paul and his have in our minds are generally ‘Greg Paul dinosaurs’. artist colleagues, but look where we are now. Paul was not the first to depict slim-limbed, fully terrestrial In view of all of this, a distinctive ‘Paulian’ style is sauropods, galloping ornithischians or theropods with present throughout the dinosaur art world today, with horizontal bodies and tails, drumstick-like shank muscles many artists producing animals clearly inspired in form, or feathery pelts – Bakker did all of this in his articles pose and posture by – or even direct copies of – Paul’s from the 1960s and 1970s. But the fact that Paul did this dinosaurs. The Jurassic Park dinosaurs are Paulian consistently, produced both black-and-white illustrations (though, shame about those unfeathered dromaeosaurs and colour paintings, and became published across popular and the burly, tree-trunk-like limbs on the brachiosaur); in mainstream sources, soon made him a dominant force in fact, we even see a Greg Paul skeletal reconstruction in the the world of dinosaur art. Although many paleontologists movie. In view of this movement, artists who produced ISSN 0891-2963 print/ISSN 1029-2381 online http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2012.670534 http://www.tandfonline.com 2 Book Review non-Paulian dinosaurs as late as the 1980s or 1990s fact that the respective animal is inferred to be typical for seemed anachronistic even at the time. its group in general shape. The reference to contempora- As Paul (2010, p. 6) explains, it has long been an aim to neous species as ‘enemies’ is slightly irksome. Should reconstruct, and publish together, the skeletons of ‘almost ‘friends’ have been listed as well? all dinosaur species for which sufficient information is On the second negative point, the book’s format is also available’. A previous effort to produce a compilation of frustrating. ‘Field guides’ do not have illustrations of Paulian dinosaurs – the Japanese volume The Complete animals scattered throughout: rather, similar species are Illustrated Guide to Dinosaur Skeletons (Paul 1996) – is far illustrated together such that the reader can best appreciate less comprehensive and hard to obtain. This new volume is a their similarities and differences. I really wish that this guide to (nearly) all valid, non-avialan Mesozoic dinosaur format had been used in Dinosaurs: A Field Guide –it species published at the time of going to press. Some would have made it so much easier to compare related species are not illustrated because Paul decided that animals. To give one example, apatosaurine sauropod published or illustrated information was insufficient to skeletons are spread across three pages, making it hard to allow a reconstruction, but all are provided with a brief appreciate how Apatosaurus ajax compares in limb and description. This consists of data on the taxon’s size, age body proportions to the three species that Paul considers and distribution, but it also includes an ‘Anatomical similar enough to be grouped together as ‘Brontosaurus characteristics’ section. morph’ apatosaurines. Dinosaurs: A Field Guide really is the sumptuous visual It is also unfortunate that specimen numbers and scale treat that dinosaur fans, and fans of Paul’s artwork and bars are not included alongside the reconstructions. This reconstructions, have long wished for. Numerous dinosaurs would have increased the volume’s value enormously and never before reconstructed by
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