[D] Triceratops prorsus
Describer
Marsh, 1890
Time
Cretaceous Late Maastrichtian
Classification
Ornithischia Genasauria Cerapoda Marginocephalia Ceratopia Neoceratopia Ceratopidae Chasmosaurinae
Diet
Herbivore
Fossilsite
Frenchman Formation, Saskatchewan, Canada; Hell Creek Formation, Montana, Lance Formation, Wyoming, US
Fall Under
Triceratops
Length
7 meter
Info
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)
Triceratops prorsus may be synonymous with Triceratops horridus The original skull is in a Japanese museum. It possessed a more heavily serrated frill and more prominent nosehorn.
Marsh, 1890
Time
Cretaceous Late Maastrichtian
Classification
Ornithischia Genasauria Cerapoda Marginocephalia Ceratopia Neoceratopia Ceratopidae Chasmosaurinae
Diet
Herbivore
Fossilsite
Frenchman Formation, Saskatchewan, Canada; Hell Creek Formation, Montana, Lance Formation, Wyoming, US
Fall Under
Triceratops
Length
7 meter
Info
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)
Triceratops prorsus may be synonymous with Triceratops horridus The original skull is in a Japanese museum. It possessed a more heavily serrated frill and more prominent nosehorn.