Triceratops

[Spalea]

" Titanoceratops (meaning "titanic horn face") is a genus of herbivorous ceratopsian dinosaur. It was a giant chasmosaurine ceratopsian that lived during the Late Cretaceous period (late Campanian, 74.7–73.5 Ma, although it could have lived as late as 72.82 Ma) in what is now New Mexico, and the earliest known member of Triceratopsini. It was named in 2011 by Nicholas R. Longrich for a specimen previously thought to belong to Pentaceratops. Titanoceratops was named for its giant skull, and the type species was named T. ouranos, after the father of the Greek titans. "

IMO, when I saw this skeleton, I think the bony shield prolonging their head could serve much more as adornment between males and females than as a really protectiv shield... These bony alveolus had to make the head lighter but not to reinforce it and to really protect the shoulders. Reply