Catalogue: USNM
2412 Material: partial skull Classification: Ornithischia,
Marginocephalia, Ceratopsia, Ceratopsidae Collected: J. B. Hatcher Place: Lance Formation,
Niobrara County, Wyoming, USA Time: Maastrichtian,
Late Cretaceous Original Publication: R.
S. Lull. 1905. American Journal of Science series 4, 20:413-419 Other References: Hatcher,
Marsh & Lull, 1907; Lull, 1933; Ostrom & Wellnhofer,
1986; Ostrom & Wellnhofer in Carpenter & Currie,
1990; Forster, 1996
The specimen has three large holes in the frill, which is a feature
unknown in Triceratops. Some paleontologists therefore consider
this specimen to be pathological (showing evidence of illness or
injury), and therefore a junior synonym of Triceratops horridus.
Others consider it to be a valid species of a different genus,
Diceratops