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Re: Triceratops questions



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