Re: Avaceratops

["Nicholas J. Pharris" <pharrinj@PLU.edu>]

On Sun, 28 Jan 1996, Graeme Worth wrote:

> In a recent posting by Jeffery Martz he listed Judith River ceratopians,
> including Avaceratops lammersi. According to recent references I have seen,
> a) the species name is now lammersorum, and 
> b) the whole thing is now included with Monoclonius.
> Am I correct?
> Graeme Worth

Last I heard, _Avaceratops_ was probably still good, but _Monoclonius_ 
was probably based on juveniles and therefore probably not diagnostic as 
to genus.  Is this right?

Nick Pharris
Pacific Lutheran University
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PharriNJ@PLU.edu

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