Triceratops

Sceletus Triceratopis horridi in Museo Historico Naturali Angelopolis Comitatus. Haec species vivebat in periodo Cretaceo superio Aevi Cretacei.

Animalia — Chordata

Classis : Sauropsida
Superordo : Dinosauria
Ordo : Ornithischia †
Familia : Ceratopsidae †
Subfamilia : Chasmosaurinae †
Tribus : Triceratopsini †
Genus : Triceratops †
Marsh, 1889

Palaeontologia

70–65.5 m.a.: Cretaceum superius

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Subdivisiones: Species

T. horridus † Marsh, 1889
T. prorsus † Marsh, 1890

Synonyma

Agathaumas? Cope, 1872

Polyonax? Cope, 1874
Bison alticornis Marsh, 1887
Torosaurus? Marsh, 1891
Sterrholophus Marsh, 1891
Claorhynchus? Cope, 1892
Ugrosaurus Cobabe & Fastovsky, 1987
Nedoceratops? Ukrainsky, 2007
Diceratus? Mateus, 2008
Ojoceratops? Sullivan & Lucas, 2010

Tatankaceratops? Ott & Larson, 2010

Species typica

Triceratops horridus † Marsh, 1889

Triceratops^[1] (a Graeco, τρι- 'tres' + κέρας 'cornu' + ὤψ 'oculus, facies')^[2] (nomen a Marsh anno 1889 inditum) est genus dinosaurorum herbivororum quod Aevo Cretaceo exeunte vixit. Reliquiae in America Septentrionali inveniuntur. Anno 2010 Scannella et Homer proposuerunt Triceratopem eundem ac Torosaurum esse; quae sententia etiamnunc disputatur.

Species[recensere | fontem recensere]

Pinacotheca[recensere | fontem recensere]

Triceratops horridus impressa
Triceratops et homo comparati
Triceratops in Museo Tyrell

Notae[recensere | fontem recensere]

↑ Vocabulum fortasse sicut cyclops declinandum: Triceratōps, -ōpis, m.; acc. -ōpem vel -ōpa.
↑ The American Heritage Dictionary, s.v. "Triceratops."

Bibliographia[recensere | fontem recensere]

Scannella, J.B. et Horner, J.R. 2010. "Torosaurus Marsh, 1891, is Triceratops Marsh, 1889 (Ceratopsidae: Chasmosaurinae): synonymy through ontogeny." Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 3(4): 1157–1168. doi:10.1080/02724634.2010.483632.
Longrich, N. R.; Field, D. J. 2012. "Torosaurus is not Triceratops: ontogeny in chasmosaurine ceratopsids as a case study in dinosaur taxonomy." PLoS One 7(2): e32623. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0032623.