Author: William Matthew

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Published: 2018-02-02

Total Pages: 120

ISBN-13: 9781984348654

William Diller Matthew (1871 -1930) was a vertebrate paleontologist and curator of the American Museum of Natural History from the mid-1890s to 1927, and director of the University of California Museum of Paleontology from 1927 to 1930. In 1915, Matthew published "Dinosaurs with special reference to the American museum" which he described as a consecutive and intelligible account of the Dinosaur collections in the American Museum. Contents: I. THE AGE OF REPTILES: ITS ANTIQUITY, DURATION AND SIGNIFICANCE IN GEOLOGIC HISTORY. II. NORTH AMERICA IN THE AGE OF REPTILES, ITS GEOGRAPHIC AND CLIMATIC CHANGES. III. KINDS OF DINOSAURS: COMMON CHARACTERS AND DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE VARIOUS GROUPS. IV. THE CARNIVOROUS DINOSAURS, ALLOSAURUS, TYRANNOSAURUS, ORNITHOLESTES, ETC.SUB-ORDER THEROPODA. V. THE AMPHIBIOUS DINOSAURS, BRONTOSAURUS, DIPLODOCUS, ETC. SUB-ORDER OPISTHOCOELIA (CETIOSAURIA OR SAUROPODA). VI. THE BEAKED DINOSAURS. ORDER ORTHOPODA (ORNITHISCHIA OR PREDENTATA.) VII. THE BEAKED DINOSAURS (Continued). VIII. THE BEAKED DINOSAURS (Continued.) IX. THE BEAKED DINOSAURS (Concluded.) X. GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF DINOSAURS. XI. COLLECTING DINOSAURS. HOW AND WHERE THEY ARE FOUND. Other works by this author include: Fossil mammals of the Tertiary of northeastern Colorado: American Museum collection of 1898. 1901. The evolution of the horse. 1903. The Carnivora and Insectivora of the Bridger Basin, Middle Eocene. 1909.