Episode 38: Ceratopsians
Ceratopsians are some of the most iconic dinosaurs that we recognise today including animals like Triceratops and Styracosaurus, with their big horns and frills. But is that what all ‘horned dinosaurs’ looked like? In fact, early ceratopsians were small and horn-less, sharing other characteristics with their larger, more derived relatives.
At the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology meeting we met up with Dr. Andy Farke from the Raymond M. Alf Museum of Paleontology in California and discussed ceratopsian diversity and a new species he was involved with naming and describing.
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Skull of the new herbivorous dinosaur Aquilops. Photo by Scott Nichols, copyright Raymond M. Alf Museum of Paleontology.
Paleontologist Andy Farke, lead author on the study describing the new herbivorous dinosaur Aquilops, holding it next to that of its distant relative Centrosaurus. Photo by Scott Nichols, copyright Raymond M. Alf Museum of Paleontology.
Artist’s reconstruction of Aquilops. Copyright Brian Engh, courtesy of Raymond M. Alf Museum of Paleontology.
Artist’s reconstruction of Aquilops in its environment in ancient Montana. Copyright Brian Engh, courtesy of Raymond M. Alf Museum of Paleontology.
Reconstruction of Aquilops relative to a human being. Copyright Brian Engh, courtesy of Raymond M. Alf Museum of Paleontology.
Liz and Dr. Farke at this year’s SVP meeting, Berlin.
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