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Torosaurus Is Not Triceratops: Ontogeny in Chasmosaurine Ceratopsids as a Case Study in Dinosaur Taxonomy

BACKGROUND: In horned dinosaurs, taxonomy is complicated by the fact that the cranial ornament that distinguishes species changes with age. Based on this observation, it has been proposed that the genera Triceratops and Torosaurus are in fact synonymous, with specimens identified as Torosaurus repre...

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Main Authors: Longrich, Nicholas R., Field, Daniel J.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Public Library of Science 2012
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3290593/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22393425
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0032623
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