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Re: Trike fights
>_Triceratops_ had supratemporal fenestra just like all the other ceratopians.
>What it didn't have were _parietal_ fenestrae, the big holes in the frill
>itself. The usual lateral, dorsal, and anterior views that you see of the
>skull don't show the supratemporal fenestrae, because they're narrow and
>located under the "occipital overhang" (for want of a better term) of the
>skull just ahead of the base of the frill. Next time you're viewing a real
>_Triceratops_ skull (not just a cast, in which the narrow openings might be
>artificially blocked off), check behind the brow horns, just ahead of the
>frill, and you'll see them. They lead out onto the dorsal surface of the
>frill.
Touche'.
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