Re: Triceratops and Torosaurus

[NJPharris@aol.com]

In a message dated 4/18/02 3:50:29 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
jonathan.r.wagner@mail.utexas.edu writes:

> > Exsqueeze me?  You think one or more of the *handful* of known 
_Torosaurus_ 
> 
>  > specimens might be closer to _Triceratops_ than to the other _Tor._
>  > specimens?  Based on what, OOC?
>  
>  The flip answer: just like people have suggested that the *handful* of 
>  specimens of Archaeopteryx, or of Tenontosaurus, or of Pachyrhinosaurus 
>  (including here Ashcelousaurus) or of fossil hominids, or of 
Psittacosaurus, 
> or 
>  of Australopithecus, or of any one a bazillion different fossil "genera" 
> might 
>  be composed of more than one species. :)

Okay, okay.  My reply came off as a little more flippant and argumentative 
than I had intended.  I was also only thinking of the first two specimens of 
_Torosaurus_.  Interesting about _T. utahensis_.  You could certainly be 
right--I don't know a terrible lot about chasmosaurines.

--Nick P.