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• These tooth marks suggest a diet of largely hadrosaurs and ceratopsians and typically occur more commonly on limb bones than on vertebrae.
• Edit: I asked Dr. Ukrainsky in an email what he meant by "Nedo" and this was his response: "Russian prefix "nedo" insufficiency sensu lato means, that this ceratopsian has lack: nasal horn absent. Insufficiency!?!
• The ceratopsian name 'Diceratops' Lull, 1905 was preoccupied by a member of the Hymenoptera insects. The Saga of Diceratops, Diceratus, and Nedoceratops
• The huge, heavy ‘frill’ of ceratopsians such as Triceratops may have served as armor against the attacks of saurischian predators like Tyrannosaurus, which lived in the same time and place as Triceratops.
• Stable isotope evidence for changes in dietary niche partitioning among hadrosaurian and ceratopsian dinosaurs of the Hell Creek Formation, North Dakota. Archive 2009-01-01
• The fossils, found in Northwest Alberta, Canada, revealed a herd of so-called ceratopsian dinosaurs that perished together. Archive 2008-10-01
• So, here I am still excited by Limusaurus, the herbivorous ceratosaurid, and up pops a previously unknown form of the speciose ceratopsian genus Psittacosaurus (presently 10-11 valid species known), from the Cretaceous of Inner Mongolia. Spock, Obama, the Kwisatz Haderach, and decriminalizing evolution.
• Ceratopsians were ornithischians, or ‘bird-hipped’ dinosaurs.
• So ceratopsian frills may also have functioned as heat radiators, or signaling devices, or to attract mates, in addition to whatever protective function they may or may not have had.
• There is a parallel here with the hadrosaur and ceratopsian dinosaurs of the Late Cretaceous.