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Re: Bainoceratops & other basal neoceratopsians



Ivan Kwan wrote:
And just a test of my basic osteology... is the jugal the "cheek horn" thingy present in all ceratopsians?


To my knowledge, it is present in all coronosaurs, psittacosaurids, heterodontosaurids (albeit reduced?), _Liaoceratops_, _Udanoceratops_, _Archaeoceratops_, _Leptoceratops_, etc.


Anyone know what this _Bainoceratops_ looked like?



Hard to say, IMHO, it's only preserved from the vertebral column, a nicely preserved vertebral column, but still... just vertebrae. I suppose it would have been most similiar to _Udanoceratops_ and _Leptoceratops_, I am working on putting Makovicky's (2001) phylogenetic analysis of neoceratopsians into Nexus Data Editor and I am adding _Liaoceratops_ and _Bainoceratops_ to the matrix as well. I'll be sure to post to the list when complete.


Nick Gardner

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