Fiche descriptive
¤ Etymologie du nom: "Tête à trois cornes"
¤ Position dans la classification: Chasmosaurinae
¤ Eres géologiques: Crétacé supérieur (99.6-65 MA)
¤ Taille estimée: 9 m de long
¤ Poids estimé: 5 t
¤ Régime alimentaire: Herbivore
¤ Répartition géographique: USA
¤ Découvert en: 1887
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Publications
- Marsh, O.C. (1889) Notice of gigantic horned Dinosauna from the Cretaceous. Am.. J. Sci. 38, 173-175
- Marsh, O.C. (1890) Description of new dinosaurian reptiles. Am.J. Sci. Third. Ser. 39: 7 pages
- Marsh, O.C. (1891) Notice of new vertebrate fossils. Am. J. Sci. (set. 3) 42: 265-269
- Marsh, O.C. (1898) New species of Ceratopsia. Am. J. Sci. (ser. 4) 6: 92
- Hatcher, J.B. (1905). Two new Ceratopsia from the Laramie of Converse County, Wyoming. American Journal of Science, Series 4, 20: 413-419
- Hatcher, J.B., Marsh, O.C., and Lull, R.S. (1907) The Ceratopsia, Monograph No. 49, U.S. Geological Survey, Wahington, DC
- Lull, R.S. (1915). The mammals and horned dinosaurs of the Lance formation of Niobrara County, Wyoming. Am. J. Sci. (set. 4) 40: 319-348
- Lull, R.S. (1933). A revision of the ceratopsia or horned dinosaurs. Mem. Peabody Museum Nat. History 3(3), 1-175
- Brown, B. (1933). A gigantic ceratopsian Dinosaur, Triceratops maximus, new species. Am. Mus. Novitates 649, 2-9
- Sternberg, C.M. (1949). The Edmonton fauna and description of a new Triceratops from the Upper Edmonton member; phylogeny of the Ceratopsidae. Bull. Natl. Mus. Can. 113: 33-46
- Ostrom, J.H. and Wellnhofer, P. (1986). The Munich specimen of Triceratops with a revision of the genus Zitteliana 14, 111-158
- Goodwin, M.B., Clemens, W.A., Horner, J.R. and Padian, K. (2006). The smallest known Triceratops skull: new observations on Ceratopsid cranial anatomy and ontogeny. JVP 26 (1): 103-112