Armored Dinosaurs

Name: Armored Dinosaurs
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ISBN: 9780253339645

ISBN-10: 0253339642

ISBN-13: 9780253339645

Edition: 2001

Authors: Kenneth Carpenter

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This volume of research on armoured dinosaurs is divided into sections on thyreophorans, stegosauria and ankylosauria. It includes descriptions of historically-important specimens from Europe.

Book details

List price: $75.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 11/9/2001
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 544
Size: 7.50" wide x 10.00" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 3.080
Language: English

Kenneth Carpenter is the dinosaur paleontologist for the Denver Museum of Natural History. He is author of Eggs, Nests, and Baby Dinosaurs (IUP, 2000), editor of The Armored Dinosaurs (IUP, 2001), and co-editor of Mesozoic Vertebrate Life (with Darren H. Tanke, IUP, 2001). He is also co-editor of Dinosaur Systematics; Dinosaur Eggs and Babies; and The Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation.



Contributors


Foreword: Walter P. Coombs, Jr.: An Affectionate Perspective




Scelidosaurus, the Earliest Complete Dinosaur




Tooth Wear and Possible Jaw Action of Scelidosaurus harrisonii Owen and a Review of Feeding Mechanisms in Other Thyreophoran Dinosaurs




New Primitive Stegosaur from the Morrison Formation, Wyoming




Othniel Charles Marsh and the Myth of the Eight-Spiked Stegosaurus




Endocranial Casts of the Plated Dinosaur Stegosaurus (Upper Jurassic, Western USA): A Complete Undistorted Cast and the Original Specimens of Othniel Charles Marsh




Possible Stegosaur Dermal Armor from the Lower Cretaceous of Southern England




Posttraumatic Chronic Osteomyelitis in Stegosaurus Dermal Spikes




South American Ankylosaurs




Skull of the Polacanthid Ankylosaur Hylaeosaurus armatus Mantell, 1833, from the Lower Cretaceous of England




Reappraisal of the Nodosaurid Ankylosaur Struthiosaurus austriacus Bunzel from the Upper Cretaceous Gosau Beds of Austria




Disarticulated Skull of a New Primitive Ankylosaurid from the Lower Cretaceous of Eastern Utah




Carlsbad Ankylosaur (Ornithischia, Ankylosauria): An Ankylosaurid and Not a Nodosaurid




Variation in Specimens Referred to Euoplocephalus tutus




Evidence of Complex Jaw Movement in the Late Cretaceous Ankylosaurid Euoplocephalus tutus (Dinosauria: Thyreophora)




Cranial Ornamentation of Ankylosaurs (Ornithischia: Thyreophora): Reappraisal of Developmental Hypotheses




Armor of the Small Ankylosaur Minmi




Dermal Armor of the Polacanthine Dinosaurs




Mounted Skeleton of the Polacanthine Ankylosaur Gastonia burgei




An Ankylosaurian Cololite from the Lower Cretaceous of Queensland, Australia




Global Distribution of Purported Ankylosaur Track Occurrences




Phytogenetic Analysis of the Ankylosauria



Index