Campanian Montana Landscape
Credit: copyright © Julius T. Csotonyi, "Dinosaur Art" (Titan Books)

A Metasequoia forest in what is now Montana during the Late Cretaceous. Dinosaurs (from left to right): Gorgosaurus libratus, Edmontonia longiceps, Brachylophosaurus Canadensis, Stegoceras validum, Chasmosaurus belli, and Styracosaurus albertensis. Paleoartist and biologist Julius T. Csotonyi has always used bold colors in his illustrations, telling White in the book, "The color patterns that I assign to dinosaurs are often influenced by artistic composition, but I try to take care to make those decisions consistent with the roles that coloration plays in ecology, which is the study of the interaction of animals, plants, and microorganisms with each other and t heir environment." longiceps, Brachylophosaurus Canadensis, Stegoceras validum, Chasmosaurus belli, and Styracosaurus albertensis. Paleoartist and biologist Julius T. Csotonyi has always used bold colors in his illustrations, telling White in the book, "The color patterns that I assign to dinosaurs are often influenced by artistic composition, but I try to take care to make those decisions consistent with the roles that coloration plays in ecology, which is the study of the interaction of animals, plants, and microorganisms with each other and t heir environment."