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A Re-Evaluation of Chasmosaurus

Started by Sim, February 10, 2016, 03:32:48 PM

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This interesting paper was published on 4 January 2016.  I haven't seen any posts about it on this forum though, so, here we go!

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0145805

It finds only two species of Chasmosaurus are valid, Chasmosaurus belli and Chasmosaurus russelli.  Mojoceratops is found to be a junior synonym of Chasmosaurus russelli (again).


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