List of Figures ix Preface xiii CHAPTER ONE With Horns on Their Faces 3 CHAPTER TWO Skin and Bones: The Anatomy of a Homed Dinosaur 29 CHAPTER THREE Three-Homed Face 56 CHAPTER FOUR Five-Horned Face and Friends 89 CHAPTER FIVE A Big One on the Nose: The Short-Frilled Homed Dinosaurs 123 CHAPTER SIX Newer Developments and Modem Studies 170 CHAPTER SEVEN No Horns and No Frills: Small Beginnings 200 CHAPTER EIGHT Sisters, Cousins, and Aunts: Deciphering the Family Tree 244 CHAPTER NINE The Life and Death of Homed Dinosaurs 260 Notes 283 Literature Cited 311 Index 325
Through humor and careful observation, Dodson relishes the opportunity to expose the reader to much of what he has experienced as a paleontologist and professor. -- Mark Goodwin, Museum of Paleontology, University of California, Berkeley
Mr. Dodson's enthusiasm--his passion and love--for his subject is catching... he writes with humor and grace ... It's as readable as a good letter from a friend you want to hear from... and what a magnificent story he tells. -- Stephen Goode The Washington Times [Dodson] brings considerable wit and charm to his argument and gives an excellent sense of the practice of paleontology, as well as of the personalities involved in it. Kirkus Reviews A fascinating and comprehensive scholarly and personal survey ... The author has successfully re-created the horned dinosaur in a fascinating book of facts, theories, and speculation. With extensive notes and excellent illustrations, this impressive volume is highly recommended... Library Journal [Dodson] manages to explain many of the intricacies of dinosaur studies in jargon-free language, and where jargon is necessary the terms are clearly defined. Above all he helps to make the dinosaurs come alive--something that most paleontologists can only dream about. -- Paul M. Barrett The Times Higher Education Supplement It is perhaps surprising that no general work has ever been published about [the Ceratopsia], but the deficit is now redressed by Dodson's engaging, witty, and erudite new book. It is a labor of love by an admitted Oceratophile' (his term), an anatomist particularly skilled in biometrics... The prose is graceful and never overly serious, and the footnoted asides are informative and amusing, so that even chapters on topics as dry as the necessary skeletal anatomy and principles of classification will be palatable to the non-specialist. -- Kevin Padian Science In his new book, Peter Dodson, a long-time student of ceratopsians, presents a delightful and authoritative survey of the horned dinosaurs... Dodson writes in an informal, often cheerfully and unabashedly personal manner. This narrative structure nicely conveys the sense of excitement associated with the discovery of and research on dinosaurs and makes the more technical matters accessible to the interested lay reader. -- Hans Sues American Paleontologist
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