Re: Dinosaur osteology

[Jerry Hodges <fossils@inreach.com>]

Thankyou Jaime,
     I have the Gilmore book, and Dinosauria, and Dino Systematics.  I
suppose I was hoping there was a new one size fits all book out there
somewhere.  You are correct about the use of papers.  Do you know of any
sources on the web that might list the papers and where to get them, or
if they are in fact printed on the net; a kind of one stop shopping list
of papers?
Thanks again,
Jerry

Jaime A. Headden wrote:

> Jerry Hodges wrote:
>
> <I am looking for some good on-line sources of
> detailed dinosaur osteology, and/or a book that
> Amazon.com may carry, or any other on-line
> booksource.>
>
>   One of the best books on dinosaur osteology is
> _Dinosauria_ , edited by Weishampel, Dodson, and
> Osmolska, with a section on every group of dinosaurs
> (excluding modern or paleobirds). Alternatively, more
> thourough and exacting osteology monographs are
> accessable in major universities or musea as papers in
> paleo journals, including the work Coombs, Tatarinov,
> and Maryanska did on ankylosaurs, Galton did on
> "hypsilophodonts," pachycephalosaurs, and stegosaurs,
> Gilmore did on *Allosaurus*, Currie and Zheng did on
> *Sinraptor* (not a monograph, but hey!) and current
> work underway to expand our knowledge of dromaeosaur
> osteology, given newer, more complete specimens, work
> being done not only by the Sihetun folks (more Xu et
> al.'s...) but also by the extraordinary MAE [MAS/AMNH]
> group in Mongolia, also on troodontids, work which was
> expanded by Currie and Russell throughout the 80s and
> published mainly in the _Canadian Journal of Earth
> Sciences_, which as I understand it is a fairly
> accesible journal; Sereno and others have done work on
> osteologies for *Lagosuchus*, *Marasuchus*,
> *Lagerpeton*, and *Lesothosaurus*/*Fabrosaurus*
> especially Novas' and Sereno's work on
> *Herrerasaurus*.
>
>   What I mean to say is don't just look for _books_,
> but the papers will sometimes give you the best info,
> and better illustrations (even photos) to boot.
> Gilmore's 1916 mono on *Allo* and *Cerato* are still
> top of the line, and also there's also B. Britt's
> _BYUGS_ mono on *Torvosaurus*, which I find highly
> helpful and hope to get the skull recon. I did firmly
> online.
>
> ===
> Jaime "James" A. Headden
>
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