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Illustration of specimen YPM 1871E, the horn cores that were erroneously attributed to Bison alticornis, the first named specimen of Triceratops. The first named fossil specimen now attributed to Triceratops is a pair of brow horns attached to a skull roof that were found by George Lyman Cannon near Denver, Colorado, in the spring of 1887. [3]
This list of nicknamed dinosaur fossils is a list of fossil non-avian dinosaur specimens given informal names or nicknames, in addition to their institutional catalogue numbers. It excludes informal appellations that are purely descriptive (e.g., "the Fighting Dinosaurs", "the Trachodon Mummy").
The remains of a brow horn suggested that the fossil was a large Triceratops, [3] one of the most common dinosaurs found in the Hell Creek Formation. [4] The remains were scattered over an area of 100 square metres. [5] The fossil's excavation was completed by August 2015. [6] The skeleton is over 60% complete, with a skull that is 75% complete ...
The Triceratops horridus and Tyrannosaurus rex each died sporting battle scars. The Triceratops fossil emerged first as it eroded from the rock of the Hell Creek Formation in 2006. The T. rex ...
The Dueling Dinosaurs or Montana Dueling Dinosaurs is a fossil specimen originating from the Hell Creek Formation of Montana. It consists of the fossilized skeletons of a tyrannosaur (generally considered a juvenile Tyrannosaurus rex) and a Triceratops horridus entangled with one another and entombed
Rare fossil of flying dinosaur reveals 76-million-year-old crocodile-like bite. Julia Musto. January 26, 2025 at 1:09 PM.
The only recorded find of a dinosaur fossil in Central America consists of a single femur discovered from Middle Cretaceous age deposits in Comayagua Department in the central part of Honduras. The fossil had been found in January, 1971 by Bruce Simonson and Gregory Horne, though it was later sent to the National Museum of Natural History, USA ...
Triceratops on display: "Yoshi's Trike" (MOR 3027) and a baby. Apart from housing one of the largest collections of dinosaur fossils in the world and the largest in the United States, [14] the museum is also home to one of the world's largest Tyrannosaurus skulls (MOR 008) – narrowly surpassing that of the Chicago Field Museum's specimen, Sue ...