Re: Triceratops questions

[Tim Williams <twilliams_alpha@hotmail.com>]

Jordan Mallon wrote:

> I think T. calicornis was synonymized with T. horridus long before
> Cathy Forster's work.  Ostrom and Wellnhofer synonymized all
> Triceratops species with T. horridus in:
>
> Ostrom, J. H., and P. Wellnhofer.  1986.  The Munich specimen of
> Triceratops with a revision of the genus.  Zitteliana 14: 111 - 158.

This is true.  I did not mean to suggest that Forster's was the first study 
to synonymize _calicornis_ with _horridus_.  Incidentally, in her 
dissertation, Forster erected a new _Triceratops_ species (T. sternbergii), 
but changed her mind before the study was published in JVP.

Cheers

Tim