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DINOSAURS
With Special Reference to the American Museum Collections
by
W. D. MATTHEW
Curator of Vertebrate Palæontology
... '_Dragons of the prime That tare each other in their slime_'
[Illustration: SKULL OF THE GREAT CARNIVOROUS DINOSAUR TYRANNOSAURUS IN THE AMERICAN MUSEUM.]
New York American Museum of Natural History 1915
DINOSAURS.
TABLE OF CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I. The Age of Reptiles. Its Antiquity, Duration and Significance in Geological History. 9
CHAPTER II. North America in the Age of Reptiles. Its Geographic and Climatic Changes. 16
CHAPTER III. Kinds of Dinosaurs. Common Characters and Differences between the various Groups. Classification. 25
CHAPTER IV. The Carnivorous Dinosaurs--Allosaurus, Tyrannosaurus, Ornitholestes, etc. 33
CHAPTER V. The Amphibious Dinosaurs--Brontosaurus, Diplodocus, etc. 60
CHAPTER VI. The Beaked Dinosaurs. The Iguanodonts--Iguanodon, Camptosaurus. 75
CHAPTER VII. The Beaked Dinosaurs (continued). The Duckbilled Dinosaurs--Trachodon, Saurolophus. 82
CHAPTER VIII. The Beaked Dinosaurs (continued). The Armored Dinosaurs--Stegosaurus, Ankylosaurus. 101
CHAPTER IX. The Beaked Dinosaurs (concluded). The Horned Dinosaurs--Triceratops, etc. 107
CHAPTER X. Geographical Distribution of Dinosaurs. 114
CHAPTER XI. Collecting Dinosaurs. How and Where they are Found. The First Discovery of Dinosaurs in the West. The Bone-Cabin Quarry. Fossil Hunting by Boat in Canada. 116
PREFACE.
This volume is in large part a reprint of various popular descriptions and notices in the American Museum Journal and elsewhere by Professor Henry Fairfield Osborn, Mr. Barnum Brown, and the writer. There has been a considerable demand for these articles which are now mostly out of print. In reprinting it seemed best to combine and supplement them so as to make a consecutive and intelligible account of the Dinosaur collections in the Museum. The original notices are quoted verbatim; for the remainder of the text the present writer is responsible. Professor S.W. Williston of Chicago University has kindly contributed a chapter--all too brief--describing the first discoveries of dinosaurs in the Western formations that have since yielded so large a harvest.
The photographs of American Museum specimens are by Mr. A.E. Anderson; the field photographs by various Museum expeditions; the restorations by Mr. Charles R. Knight. Most of these illustrations have been published elsewhere by Professor Osborn, Mr. Brown and others. The diagrams, figs. 1-9, 24, 25, 37 and 40, are my own.
