Title: The dinosaur book : the ruling reptiles and their relatives
Identifier: dinosauruli13colb (find matches)
Year: 1945 (1940s)
Authors: Colbert, Edwin H. (Edwin Harris), 1905-2001; Germann, John C
Subjects: Dinosaurs; Reptiles, Fossil
Publisher: New York, N. Y. : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: IMLS / LSTA / METRO

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*^J^J;t' A.M.N.H. photograph A nest of eggs of Protoceratops, the ancestral horned dinosaur, as they were dis- covered in Mongolia by the Central Asiatic Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History ceratopsians, Triceratops (try-SER-at-ops) is typical and is perhaps the best known genus. This was an animal about 20 to 30 feet in length, standing some eight feet in height at the hips. Needless to say, Triceratops was fully quadrupedal, with strong limbs, and short, broad feet. The remarkable feature of Triceratops and of all the large horned dinosaurs was the enormous head, constitut- The last of the horned dinosaurs: Triceratops, a strong animal, admirably equipped for defensive fighting. The eight-foot skull with its flaring "collar" was fully one- third the entire length of the animal. From the Upper Cretaceous of North America Restoration by Charles R. Knight, copyright The Chicago Natural History Museum

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