pThe great dinosaur bone beds of the American and Canadian West are world famous and have yielded spectacular fossil finds. But the eastern United States and maritime Canada, where dinosaurs also roamed in great numbers, have been equally important to the study of these extraordinary creatures. Some dinosaur fossils have come from the bog iron and clay pits of Maryland and New Jersey, while others have been discovered in the riverbanks of North and South Carolina. Dinosaur footprint sites have been found from central Virginia to the Bay of Fundy in Nova Scotia.ppIn iDinosaurs of the East Coasti, David Weishampel and Luther Young restore East Coast dinosaurs to their rightful place on the paleontological map. They describe such dinosaurs as the plant-eating iAstrodon johnstonii, which browsed in a tropical Maryland jungle 100 million years ago iAnchisaurus polyzelusi, which lived in New England some 200 million years ago iEubrontesi, the first large therapod on the East Coast iPekinosau