Re: _Avaceratops_

[Justin S Tweet <thescelosaurus@juno.com>]

On Tue, 29 Feb 2000 12:29:07 EST "Timothy Williams"
<twilliams_alpha@hotmail.com> writes:
[snip]

> A referred skull (MOR 692) is a partial skull found around 125 km NE
from 
> the holotype.  (Unfortunately the squamosal of MOR 692 is too shattered
to 
> reconstruct the shape, but the distinct shape of the premaxilla, the
solid 
> frill, and the presence of certain "bumps" on the squamosal prompted  
> Penkalski and Dodson (1999) to provisionally refer MOR 692 to 
> _Avaceratops_.)   MOR 692 shows postorbital horn cores (actually rather

> similar to those of the _Ceratops_ type specimen (USNM 2411), found
around 
> 160 km north of the _Avaceratops_ type locality).  MOR 692 is an adult 
> specimen (bone texture, fusion) and comes from an animal around 4.2m
long 
> (Penkalski and Dodson, 1999).
[snip]

Has anyone ever suggested that *Avaceratops* could be a junior synonym of
*Ceratops*?-*Thescelosaurus*

> Tim
> 
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