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Around the horn: Michael Ryan, head of vertebrate paleontology at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History,
is among the scientists in Alberta who have identified a new type of
horned dinosaur that looked like Triceratops but lived 15 million years
earlier.
The New York Times reports
that the dinosaur, called Xenoceratops foremostensis, “was a two-ton
vegetarian that flourished 80 million years ago, making it the oldest
known large-bodied horned dinosaur to be found in Canada.”
Dr. Ryan, author of a study in The Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences that describes the species, tells The Times,
“This guy was the size of a large bull, with two big brow horns over
its eyes and a big shield off the back of its skull. And it had a beak
at the front of the mouth, very much like a turtle.”
Fossils of
Xenoceratops were first collected in 1958, but were left unidentified at
the Canadian Museum of Nature in Ottawa. Dr. Ryan and a co-author,
David Evans of the Royal Ontario Museum and the University of Toronto,
“are working on a larger effort, the Southern Alberta Dinosaur Project,
that has identified about 10 new dinosaurs, including Xenoceratops,” the
newspaper reports.
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