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xv Acknowledgments This book was conceived during the symposium Tribute to Charles Darwin and Bernissart Iguanodons: New Perspectives on Vertebrate Evolution and Early Cretaceous Ecosystems, which was held February 9–13, 2009, at the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (Brussels) and in Bernissart itself. This meeting was partly devoted to the latest results of a multidisciplinary project dedicated to the material collected in the cores drilled in 2002–2003 in and around the Iguanodon Sinkhole at Bernissart. I should like to express my deep gratitude to the coleaders of this project—J.-P. Tshibangu, J. Yans, and C. Dupuis—and to the FRS-FNRS, which provided financial support. I should like also to thank the people who have contributed to the organization of the symposium. O. Lambert was a particularly efficient co-organizer. The general director of the RBINS, Camille Pisani, and the head of the department of paleontology, E. Steurbaut, provided support, advice, and facilities. W. De Vos and the communication staff of the RBINS, as well as all the members of the department of paleontology, tirelessly helped us in various practical aspects of organization. I am greatly indebted to the Belgian Science Policy, the main sponsor of this meeting, and particularly to its president, P. Mettens, who encouraged its organization . The mayor, R. Vanderstraeten, Annette Cornelis, Corinne Detrain, the Tourism Office of Bernissart, the Local Development Agency of Bernissart , and the Geological Circle of Hainaut efficiently provided support and facilities at Bernissart. Thanks also to R. Sloan (Indiana University Press) and J. O. Farlow for their support of the project from its earliest inception and for their patience. And of course I thank all the authors for their papers, in particular J.-M. Baele, D. B. Norman, Y. Quinif, P. Spagna, and J. Yans, for their important contribution to the realization of this book. Pascale Golinvaux created the jacket illustration. H. De Potter and E. Dermience helped with the electronic versions of the figures. A ...