. The dinosaur book : the ruling reptiles and their relatives. Dinosaurs; Reptiles, Fossil. 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
. The dinosaur book : the ruling reptiles and their relatives. Dinosaurs; Reptiles, Fossil. 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 seven-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 /. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Colbert, Edwin H. (Edwin Harris), 1905-2001; Knight, Charles Robert, 1874-1953; American Museum of Natural History. New York : Published for the American Museum of Natural History by McGraw-Hill
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