The horned dinosaurs : a natural history /

The horned dinosaurs, a group of rhinoceros-like creatures that lived 100 to 65 million years ago, included one of the greatest and most popular dinosaurs studied today: Triceratops. In telling us about Triceratops and its relatives, the Ceratopsia, Peter Dodson here re-creates the sense of adventur...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dodson, Peter
Corporate Author: Clarence J. Marshall Memorial Library Fund
Other Authors: Barlowe, Wayne Douglas, Walters, Robert F
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1996
Princeton, N.J. : [1996], ©1996
Princeton, N.J. : c1996
Princeton, N.J. : ©1996
Princeton, N.J. : [1996]
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Table of Contents:
  • With horns on their faces
  • Skin and bones : the anatomy of a horned dinosaur
  • Three-horned face
  • Five-horned face and friends
  • A big one on the nose : the short-frilled horned dinosaurs
  • Newer developments and modern studies
  • No horns and no frills : small beginnings
  • Sisters, cousins, and aunts : deciphering the family tree
  • The life and death of horned dinosaurs