Re: [dinosaur] Triceratops maximus

[Tyler Greenfield <tgreenfield999@gmail.com>]

Triceratops maximus is an actual name, given by Brown (1933) to a set of cervical vertebrae and ribs. It's probably a nomen dubium since Triceratops species are usually diagnosed by cranial characters.

http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/bitstream/handle/2246/2064//v2/dspace/ingest/pdfSource/nov/N0649.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

On Wed, Nov 11, 2020 at 6:45 AM Mike Taylor <sauropoda@gmail.com> wrote:

Indeed: "Triceratops maximus" is more of a marketing slogan than a taxonomic name.

However, the fossil is properly awesome. Here's a cast, at BYU museum, with Matt Wedel and me for scale.

https://svpow.files.wordpress.com/2016/05/dscn0815.jpg

-- Mike.

On Wed, 11 Nov 2020 at 12:36, Thomas Richard Holtz <tholtz@umd.edu> wrote:

Greetings,

In all the discussions of TriceratopsÂspecies from Ostrom & Wellnhofer in the 1980s through Foster to Scanella, I haven't seen any of them who regardÂit as valid.

On Wed, Nov 11, 2020 at 2:30 AM Poekilopleuron <dinosaurtom2015@seznam.cz> wrote:

Good day!

Does anyone know if there is currently any ongoing (or future) research on "Triceratops maximus"? Based on current knowledge, is it just a very large specimen of Triceratops horridus/prorsus or is an idea of it being an entirely new species still accepted? Thank you in advance! Tom

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