Meet Wendiceratops!

[suspsy]

Move over, Regaliceratops!

http://news.discovery.com/animals/dinosaurs/new-wendy-dino-had-curls-and-frills-150708.htm

And yes, I definitely want this one as a toy too!

[DinoLord]

The amount of diversity in late Cretaceous ceratopsians continues to astound, and would seem to suggest an important display function for the horns and frills. Personally I think this one looks like a mix between Achelousaurus, Triceratops, and Centrosaurus.

[SBell]

The amount of diversity in late Cretaceous ceratopsians continues to astound, and would seem to suggest an important display function for the horns and frills. Personally I think this one looks like a mix between Achelousaurus, Triceratops, and Centrosaurus.

And someday someone is gong to try and push them all into the same genus, if not species. Especially given how many of these are showing up in southern Alberta.

Bu at least Wendy Sloboda is finally recognied for her work--not only fossils, but the first two tyrannosaurid coprolites ever (T.rex in southern Saskatchewan, smaller tyrannosaurid in southern Alberta).

[Balaur]

When I first read the name, I thought "named after the Wendigo? Awesome!" Still, really cool ceratopsian!

[CityRaptor]

Guess I'm not the only one who thought that.

Seems a bit tame compared to some other Ceratopsians out there.

[Z-Ray]

Always happy to see more Ceratopsians in their apparently endless fashion parade of ways to wear your horns

Also happy to see a name in the W's,
seriously paleontology how am I supposed to make my nephews an illustrated ABC's of Ceratopsians if you keep skipping F, I and Q?
and to think of all the discoveries wasted on A.
(however if there are any F,I and Q Ceratopsians I have missed let me know and I'll be one step closer to my dream of a series of oddly specific ABC books)

[DinoLord]

Huh, Holtz's genera list has nothing for those letters. I guess you'll just have to wait it out.

[paleoferroequine]

   Is it just me but my brain hurts whenever I try to understand the relationship of the various centrosaurines. For instance in one classification (Ryan et al. [2012]) poor old Zenoceratops is a basal centrosaurine outside of the other clades. In another (Sampson et al. [2013]) it is a sister taxon to Sinoceratops, a Chinese centrosaurine! Now (Evans et al.[2015]) however it has wandered off again and Wendiceratops is now a sister taxon to Sinoceratops which are both more basal than the pachyrhinosaurini.  Also in another example (2012 phylogenetic analysis by Ryan, Evans & Shepherd) Rubeosaurus is a pachyrhinosaurini along with Sinoceratops. But now Rubeosaurus is sister taxon to Styracasaurus which makes more sense. Seems like all these cladograms get the reset button whenever a new specimen is uncovered. Or do they use a random number generator or dice to figure things out. None of them resemble one another at all. I'm so confused!

[Kayakasaurus]

I gladly welcome new Ceratopsians! It reminds me of that one they found in Canada a while back and they held a contest to name it. Does anyone remember the name of that one?

[Halichoeres]

   Is it just me but my brain hurts whenever I try to understand the relationship of the various centrosaurines. For instance in one classification (Ryan et al. [2012]) poor old Zenoceratops is a basal centrosaurine outside of the other clades. In another (Sampson et al. [2013]) it is a sister taxon to Sinoceratops, a Chinese centrosaurine! Now (Evans et al.[2015]) however it has wandered off again and Wendiceratops is now a sister taxon to Sinoceratops which are both more basal than the pachyrhinosaurini.  Also in another example (2012 phylogenetic analysis by Ryan, Evans & Shepherd) Rubeosaurus is a pachyrhinosaurini along with Sinoceratops. But now Rubeosaurus is sister taxon to Styracasaurus which makes more sense. Seems like all these cladograms get the reset button whenever a new specimen is uncovered. Or do they use a random number generator or dice to figure things out. None of them resemble one another at all. I'm so confused!

As somebody who builds cladograms for a living, among other things, I could give you a rundown on why the trees, especially for fossils, are so prone to disruption by new taxa if you're really interested. Is that something that people would enjoy learning?

[Patrx]

As somebody who builds cladograms for a living, among other things, I could give you a rundown on why the trees, especially for fossils, are so prone to disruption by new taxa if you're really interested. Is that something that people would enjoy learning?

I certainly would be

[paleoferroequine]

I gladly welcome new Ceratopsians! It reminds me of that one they found in Canada a while back and they held a contest to name it. Does anyone remember the name of that one?

   Ralph.

[paleoferroequine]

As somebody who builds cladograms for a living, among other things, I could give you a rundown on why the trees, especially for fossils, are so prone to disruption by new taxa if you're really interested. Is that something that people would enjoy learning?

I certainly would be

   Better believe it. Help me, Obi-Wan Halichoeres; you're my only hope.   

[Plasticbeast95]

Welcome!

[Kayakasaurus]

I gladly welcome new Ceratopsians! It reminds me of that one they found in Canada a while back and they held a contest to name it. Does anyone remember the name of that one?

   Ralph.

Ralph? I just looked it up and I think it is "Cornelius" anyways... This is that guy! No wonder they look so similar!

[paleoferroequine]

   How cool is this, Wendy Sloboda got a tattoo    

[Halichoeres]

As somebody who builds cladograms for a living, among other things, I could give you a rundown on why the trees, especially for fossils, are so prone to disruption by new taxa if you're really interested. Is that something that people would enjoy learning?

I certainly would be

   Better believe it. Help me, Obi-Wan Halichoeres; you're my only hope.   

Ha ha ha, okay, I'll get on it.

[Halichoeres]

Done: http://dinotoyblog.com/forum/index.php?topic=3586.0