Horns And Beaks

by Carpenter, Kenneth

• ISBN13: 9780253348173
• ISBN10: 025334817X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-01-01
• Publisher: Indiana Univ Pr

Summary

New findings on Triceratops, Iguanodon, and other related dinosaurs

Author Biography

Kenneth Carpenter is the dinosaur paleontologist for the Denver Museum of Natural History and author of Eggs, Nests, and Baby Dinosaurs, editor of The Armored Dinosaurs and The Carnivorous Dinosaurs, and co-editor of Mesozoic Vertebrate Life and Thunder-Lizards, all published by Indiana University Press. He is also co-editor of Dinosaur Systematics, Dinosaur Eggs and Babies, and The Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation. He lives in Denver, Colorado.

Table of Contents

Contributors	vii
Preface	ix
Acknowledgments	xi
PART ONE: Beaked Dinosaurs: The Ornithopods
Callovosaurus leedsi, the Earliest Dryosaurid Dinosaur (Ornithischia: Euornithopoda) from the Middle Jurassic of England	3	(14)
Jose Ignacio Ruiz-Omenaca
Xabier Pereda Suberbiola
Peter M. Galton
Teeth of Ornithischian Dinosaurs (Mostly Ornithopoda) from the Morrison Formation (Upper Jurassic) of the Western United States	17	(32)
Peter M. Galton
A Description of a New Ornithopod from the Lytle Member of the Purgatoire Formation (Lower Cretaceous) and a Reassessment of the Skull of Camptosaurus	49	(20)
Kathleen Brill
Kenneth Carpenter
Turning the Old into the New: A Separate Genus for the Gracile Iguanodont from the Wealden of England	69	(10)
Gregory S. Paul
A Possible New Basal Hadrosaur from the Lower Cretaceous Cedar Mountain Formation of Eastern Utah	79	(12)
David Gilpin
Tony DiCroce
Kenneth Carpenter
Postcranial Osteology of the Hadrosaurid Dinosaur Bracbylophosaurus canadensis from the Late cretaceous of Montana	91	(26)
Albert Prieto-Marquez
``Leonardo,'' a Mummified Brachylophosaurus (Ornithischia: Hadrosauridae) from the Judith River Formation of Montana	117	(18)
Nate L. Murphy
David Trexler
Mark Thompson
Discussion of Character Analysis of the Appendicular Anatomy in Campanian and Maastrichtian North American Hadrosaurids---Variation and Ontogeny	135	(36)
Michael K. Brett-Surman
Jonathan R. Wagner
Osteochondrosis in Late Cretaceous Hadrosauria: A Manifestation of Ontologic Failure	171	(14)
Bruce Rothschild
Darren H. Tanke
Deciphering Duckbills: A History in Nomenclature	185	(28)
Benjamin S. Creisler
PART TWO: Horned Dinosaurs: Ceratopsians
Cranial Anatomy and Biogeography of the First Leptoceratops gracilis (Dinosauria: Ornithischia) Specimens from the Hell Creek Formation, Southeast Montana	213	(22)
Christopher J. Ott
Cranial Osteology and Phylogenetic Relationships of the Chasmosaurine Ceratopsid Torosaurus latus	235	(24)
Andrew A. Farke
Growth and Population Age Structure in the Horned Dinosaur Chasmosaurus	259	(60)
Thomas M. Lehman
Bone Resorption, Bone Lesions, and Extracranial Fenestrae in Ceratopsid Dinosaurs: A Preliminary Assessment	319	(30)
Darren H. Tanke
Andrew A. Farke
``Bison'' alticornis and O. C. Marsh's Early Views on Ceratopsians	349	(16)
Kenneth Carpenter
Index	365