Re: Bainoceratops

["T. Michael Keesey" <mightyodinn@yahoo.com>]

--- Dinogeorge@aol.com wrote:
> This just in from Jerry Harris:
> 
> Haven't seen this paper yet, but it's listed in the latest issue of
> _Paleontological Journal_ (37[3]):
> 
> Bainoceratops efremovi, a New Protoceratopid Dinosaur
> (Protoceratopidae, Neoceratopsia) from the Bain-Dzak Locality
> (South Mongolia)
[...]
> --I like "protoceratopid" and "Protoceratopidae" (heh heh).

Actually, sounds like it's a leptoceratop[s]id....

> "Neoceratopsia," however, is another matter.

Why's that?

(On another note, I know "horned dinosaur" is a common vernacular term for
members of _Ceratopsia_, but is anyone else irritated by hornless animals like
psittacosaurids, leptoceratopsids, protoceratopsids, etc. being called "horned 
dinosaurs"?)

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