Triceratops Frill Skin Found!

[suspsy]

At the good ol' CMN here in Ottawa! And it may be the largest species ever!

https://canadianmuseumofnature.wordpress.com/2018/12/12/triceratops-skull/

[PhilSauria]

Amazing! Examples of this level of fossilization really grab my interest - anything that gives an insight into how these long gone animals may have looked in life completely astounds me. Always more to learn.

Thanks for the link to this. 'Christmas present' indeed!

[acro-man]

Hallelujah!!! What a beautiful piece!

[Patrx]

Oh, wow! What a find. I am very curious about what might be on the other side!

[Derek.McManus]

Am I reading this correct preserved skin from a specimen collected a most 90 years ago? Wow!

[Faelrin]

Amazing that we are still discovering more about this animal in terms of integument (assuming this belongs to the same species as the other unpublished find). Truly amazing though.

[Doug Watson]

Am I reading this correct preserved skin from a specimen collected a most 90 years ago? Wow!

Yep, when I worked there I was amazed how many field jackets lay unprepared with dates on them from the early 1900s. Most were post cranial material since the skulls of any suspected new species would have been prepared in order to describe the new species. Often the rest of the specimen would stay under wraps because it is so time consuming to prep. Sometimes a skull of a new species and sometimes genus would be misidentified and go undetected like Vagaceratops because they thought it was an already described species and it sat from 1958 until the 1990s but many have dates on them like 1918.
I suspect this Triceratops stayed unprepared since they didn't believe it was a new species.

[suspsy]

Here is a photo I took during an open house visit. I don't think it does justice to the true size of the fossil.

https://flic.kr/p/VuZmsv

Makes me hope that the next Triceratops toy to be released by whichever company is a prorsus as opposed to another horridus.