piranha Posted January 22, 2011 Share Posted January 22, 2011 Jack Horner's horned dino theory in trouble .... LINK PLoS ONE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boesse Posted January 22, 2011 Share Posted January 22, 2011 For one... it isn't Horner's theory. Jack is a coauthor, but it was John Scannella's paper (and hypothesis). Second - Farke's study revolves around a single specimen, the "Nedoceratops" holotype. Scannella and Horner (2010) utilized a substantially larger sample size of Triceratops cranial specimens. Third - it's laughable that anyone considers "Nedoceratops" to be valid. In the one hundred plus years since Maastrichtian chasmosaurs have been collected from North America, a second specimen of "Nedoceratops" has never been collected. Only the holotype. And it shows a bunch of really weird features that can be parsimoniously interpreted as pathologic. "Nedoceratops" is a 'freak' Triceratops. Bobby Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piranha Posted January 22, 2011 Author Share Posted January 22, 2011 For one... it isn't Horner's theory. Jack is a coauthor, but it was John Scannella's paper (and hypothesis). Second - Farke's study revolves around a single specimen, the "Nedoceratops" holotype. Scannella and Horner (2010) utilized a substantially larger sample size of Triceratops cranial specimens. Third - it's laughable that anyone considers "Nedoceratops" to be valid. In the one hundred plus years since Maastrichtian chasmosaurs have been collected from North America, a second specimen of "Nedoceratops" has never been collected. Only the holotype. And it shows a bunch of really weird features that can be parsimoniously interpreted as pathologic. "Nedoceratops" is a 'freak' Triceratops. Bobby Thanks Bobby ... great info as always. Btw, I suspect you're not such a dinosaur 'hater' after all. So where do you fall on the larger premise of Horner et al, that the Ceratopsia as a clade are much smaller? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nandomas Posted January 23, 2011 Share Posted January 23, 2011 Jack Horner's horned dino theory in trouble .... LINK PLoS ONE I like the paper and I like more the publisher. PLoS ONE is the future Erosion... will be my epitaph! http://www.paleonature.org/ https://fossilnews.org/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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