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The Dinosaur Folios #2



Now that _Dinosaur Folios_ #1 is being shipped out (first come, first served,
naturally!), I've started working on the second installment, to appear in
June. Four dinosaurs will be featured: _Achelousaurus_, _Craterosaurus_,
_Einiosaurus_, and _Irritator_. Three are brand new, described only months
ago: The first and third are ceratopians (horned dinosaurs) from the Two
Medicine Formation of Montana—Jack Horner's stomping grounds—and the fourth
is a weird theropod from the Santana Formation of Brazil. The other,
_Craterosaurus_, is intimately connected with _Regnosaurus_, included in the
first installment, and it essentially completes the discussion of the Early
Cretaceous stegosaur(s) from Europe.

The introductory section of Installment #2 will cover the classification of
Ceratopia, of which the aforementioned Two Medicine genera greatly increase
our understanding. (Many, many paleontologists continue to call Ceratopia by
its etymologically incorrect but vastly more popular name Ceratopsia—but you
won't find many etymological errata in _The Dinosaur Folios_. Thanks, by the
way, to Othniel Charles Marsh for originating the misspelling Ceratopsia way
back in 1890.)

For ordering information (Installments #1 and 2), e-mail me directly, of
course!