The Dinosaurs of North America
Othniel Charles Marsh
Marsh's monograph on the dinosaurs he named during the Bone Wars, among them Brontosaurus, Allosaurus, Stegosaurus and Triceratops. Full osteological descriptions with the skeletal restorations that shaped how dinosaurs have looked ever since.
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