New Perspectives on Horned Dinosaurs: The Royal Tyrrell Museum Ceratopsian Symposium (Life of the Past) (Magazine)

Easily distinguished by the horns and frills on their skulls, ceratopsians were one of the most successful of all dinosaurs. This volume presents a broad range of cutting-edge research on the functional biology, behavior, systematics, paleoecology, and paleogeography of the horned dinosaurs, and includes descriptions of newly identified species. Contents Preface Acknowledgments List of Contributors List of Reviewers PART ONE § OVERVIEW 1. Forty Years of Ceratophilia PART TWO § SYSTEMATICS AND NEW CERATOPSIANS 2. Taxonomy, Cranial Morphology, and Relationships of Parrot-Beaked Dinosaurs(Ceratopsia: Psittacosaurus) 3. A New Species of Archaeoceratops (Dinosauria: Neoceratopsia) from the Early Cretaceous of the Mazongshan Area, Northwestern China 4. A Redescription of the Montanoceratops cerorhynchus Holotype with a Review of Referred Material 5. First Basal Neoceratopsian from the Oldman Formation (Belly River Group), Southern Alberta 6. Zuniceratops christopheri: The North American Ceratopsid Sister Taxon Reconstructed on the Basis of New Data 7. Horned Dinosaurs (Ornithischia: Ceratopsidae) from the Upper Cretaceous (Campanian)Cerro del Pueblo Formation, Coahuila, Mexico 8. New Basal Centrosaurine Ceratopsian Skulls from the Wahweap Formation (Middle Campanian), Grand Staircase–Escalante National Monument, Southern Utah 9. A New Pachyrhinosaurus-Like Ceratopsid from the Upper Dinosaur Park Formation (Late Campanian) of Southern Alberta, Canada 10. New Material of ‘‘Styracosaurus’’ ovatus from the Two Medicine Formation of Montana 11. A New Chasmosaurine (Ceratopsidae, Dinosauria) from the Upper Cretaceous OjoAlamo Formation (Naashoibito Member), San Juan Basin, New Mexico 12. A New Chasmosaurine Ceratopsid from the Judith River Formation, Montana 13. Description of a Complete and Fully Articulated Chasmosaurine Postcranium Previously Assigned to Anchiceratops (Dinosauria: Ceratopsia) 14. A New, Small Ceratopsian Dinosaur from the Latest Cretaceous Hell Creek Formation, Northwest South Dakota, United States: A Preliminary Description PART THREE § ANATOMY, FUNCTIONAL BIOLOGY, AND BEHAVIOR 15. Comments on the Basicranium and Palate of Basal Ceratopsians 16. Mandibular Anatomy in Basal Ceratopsia 17. Histological Evaluation of Ontogenetic Bone Surface Texture Changes in the Frill of Centrosaurus apertus 18. Modeling Structural Properties of the Frill of Triceratops Insert 19. New Evidence Regarding the Structure and Function of the Horns in Triceratops (Dinosauria: Ceratopsidae) 20. Evolutionary Interactions between Horn and Frill Morphology in Chasmosaurine Ceratopsians 21. Skull Shapes as Indicators of Niche Partitioning by Sympatric Chasmosaurine and Centrosaurine Dinosaurs 22. The Function of Large Eyes in Protoceratops: A Nocturnal Ceratopsian? 23. A Semi-Aquatic Life Habit for Psittacosaurus 24. Habitual Locomotor Behavior Inferred from Manual Pathology in Two Late CretaceousChasmosaurine Ceratopsid Dinosaurs, Chasmosaurus irvinensis (CMN 41357) and Chasmosaurus belli(ROM 843) 25. Paleopathologies in Albertan Ceratopsids and Their Behavioral Significance PART FOUR § HORNED DINOSAURS IN TIME AND SPACE 26. An Update on the Paleobiogeography of Ceratopsian Dinosaurs 27. Unraveling a Radiation: A Review of the Diversity, Stratigraphic Distribution, Biogeography, and Evolution of Horned Dinosaurs (Ornithischia: Ceratopsidae) 28. A Review of Ceratopsian Paleoenvironmental Associations and Taphonomy 29. Behavioral Interpretations from Ceratopsid Bonebeds 30. Paleontology and Paleoenvironmental Interpretation of the Kikak-Tegoseak Quarry (Prince Creek Formation: Late Cretaceous), Northern Alaska: A Multi-Disciplinary Study of a High-Latitude Ceratopsian Dinosaur Bonebed 31. Taphonomy of Horned Dinosaurs (Ornithischia: Ceratopsidae) from the Late Campanian Kaiparowits Formation, Grand Staircase–Escalante National Monument, Utah 32. A Centrosaurine Mega-Bonebed from the Upper Cretaceous of Southern Alberta: Implications for Behavior and Death Events 33. Insect Trace Fossils Associated with Protoceratops Carcasses in the Djadokhta Formation (Upper Cretaceous), Mongolia 34. Faunal Composition and Significance of High-Diversity, Mixed Bonebeds Containing Agujaceratops mariscalensis and Other Dinosaurs, Aguja Formation (Upper Cretaceous), Big Bend, Texas PART FIVE § HISTORY OF HORNED DINOSAUR COLLECTION 35. Lost in Plain Sight: Rediscovery of William E. Cutler’s Missing Eoceratops 36. Historical Collecting Bias and the Fossil Record of Triceratops in Montana Afterword Index Пустая страница "New Perspectives on Horned Dinosaurs records a landmark event and makes clear that our understanding of this group is undergoing truly explosive growth. To give just one measure, the number of ceratopsids discussed at this meeting represented a doubling of species compared to a comprehensive review of this clade published just three years earlier. The remarkable abundance of newly discovered forms was augmented by presentation of rigorous studies of stratigraphy, phylogeny, ontogeny, biomechanics, taphonomy, paleogeography, and paleoenvironment. These results, including descriptions of ten new taxa, are captured in this volume, which will be a must-own for dinosaur paleontologists and enthusiasts alike."--Scott Sampson, University of Utah Ceratopsids, or horned dinosaurs, are a group of large-bodied, quadruped herbivores that lived roughly 65-70 million years ago. Part of a larger group of dinosaurs that include stegosaurs, ankylosaurs, ornithopods, and pachychaphalosaurs, the better known members of the ceratopsids include centrosaurs, chasmosaurs, and triceratopsians. All are easily distinguished by the horns and frills on their skulls; in fact, ceratopsids have among the largest, most elaborate skulls found in vertebrates. They were one of the most successful of all dinosaurs and their remains are well known from many locations in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. They died out at the end of the Cretaceous along with the rest of the dinosaurs Triceratops and its kin may hail from the dim and distant past, but this new volume brings them fully into the light of today. An all-star and comprehensive list of authors not only effectively puts horned dinosaurs in the context of their own time and place, but also brings them alive as living breathing biological organisms. New Perspectives on Horned Dinosaurs is able proof of the vitality of modern dinosaur science, bringing to bear twenty-first-century ideas and approaches to ask--and answer--questions that once would have been thought to be out of reach."--Larry Witmer, Ohio University "From Archaeoceratops to Zuniiceratops, from Alaska to Mexico, and from sediments to functional morphology, this book covers much of present-day research on ceratopsians. These horned dinosaurs are rendered as living, behaving, and evolving organisms throughout the thirty-six chapters of this book. I encourage everyone interested in how a myriad of incredible fossils can inform about life of the past to read it."--David Weishampel, co-editor of The Dinosauria and co-author of Dinosaurs: A Concise Natural History The outgrowth of the Royal Tyrrell Museum's Ceratopsian Symposium, this volume presents a broad range of cutting edge research on the functional biology and behavior, systematics, Paleoecology, and paleogeography of the horned dinosaurs, including descriptions of newly identified species. There is also a history of collecting these dinosaurs, plus a supplementary CD-ROM containing a history of ceratopsian discoveries in Canada and a list of the specimens recovered to date. --Book Jacket Easily distinguished by the horns and frills on their skulls, ceratopsids were one of the most successful of all dinosaurs. This volume presents a broad range of cutting-edge research on the functional biology, behavior, systematics, paleoecology, and paleogeography of the horned dinosaurs, and includes descriptions of newly identified species "This book captures an explosion of new and exciting research on one of the most fascinating groups of dinosaurs. It will be a landmark in the study of ceratopsians."--David C. Evans, University of Toronto