Describer

Marsh, 1891

Time

Cretaceous Late Maastrichtian

Classification

Ornithischia Genasauria Cerapoda Marginocephalia Ceratopia Neoceratopia Ceratopidae Chasmosaurinae

Diet

Herbivore

Fossilsite

Lance Formation, Evanston Formation, Wyoming, US

Fall Under

Triceratops

Info

Genus

Triceratops (Marsh, 1889) = Sterrholophus flabellatus (Marsh, 1891)

Triceratops > Triceratops horridus (Marsh, 1889) = Ceratops horridus (Marsh, 1889) >> Triceratops alticornis (Marsh, 1887) Triceratops flabellatus (Marsh, 1889), Triceratops prorsus (Marsh, 1890), Triceratops serratus (Marsh, 1890), Triceratops elatus (Marsh, 1891) Triceratops calicornis (Marsh, 1898), Triceratops obtusus (Marsh, 1898), Triceratops hatcheri (Lull, 1905), Triceratops brevicornus (Hatcher, 1905), Triceratops eurycephalus (Schlaikjer, 1935), Triceratops albertensis (Sternberg, 1949)

The idea that Triceratops horridus and Triceratops prorsus might be sexual dimorphs of a single species is considered and rejected, even though the species are sympatric, because many more specimens referable to Triceratops horridus than to Triceratops prorsus have been discovered.

Proposed for Triceratops flabellatus (Marsh, 1889)