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@triceratopscabin
Heyyy welcome to my little blog!!! Designated for all things Triceratops and camp related! I'm super excited to be here and I hope to harass my fellow cabins ;3 Tag key: #Tricera Bellows - Just me chatting about things! #Tricera Facts - Facts about Ceratopsians! #Tricera Cabinsonas - Talking about me and my friends! #Tricera Art - Art stuff from me!!! I'll add myself a proper little intro here when I feel like it :D
I posted this on instagram too but what do you guys rate my fit be honest
/ooc Credit to glwobs on discord!
It's not a coincidence if you happen to wear outfits exactly like mine 3 performances in a row I'm so serious
He's a 10 but he howls at the moon
He's a 10 but he unironically calls himself alpha and not in the weird misogynistic way
Having a vegetarian friend is literally the best because I get new restaurant suggestions all the time
?? Who wrote this... just straight defamation. I would never ever say anything like that, especially not around campers!!!
Just saw the UGLIEST drag person on stage lmao
He's a 10 but he slobbers when he eats
Je peux parler français alors je peux poste en français #lifehack (Not really but i'm delusional!)
I just found out that me and my cousin are both vegetarians and it's like ? I guess it's genetic? LOL
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Anyone else have that one person who keeps copying everything they do? No? Just me? Got it.
Common Misconceptions Of The Triceratops
Now, there are a few things people often get confused with when it comes to our lovely Triceratops. That's perfectly alright, especially since we don't have concrete evidence about everything.
The first is that the Triceratops and T-Rex were enemies and fought often. This one makes sense as it is built off of something that is correct. T-Rexes would prey on Triceratops! (I don't think you have anything to worry about with our fellow T-Rex campers though!) It was believed that Triceratops would fight back against T-Rexes with their horns, but there is no evidence of any such injury on their bones, meanwhile there is plenty of evidence for Triceratops being attacked by T-Rexes. The horns, and frills, are much more likely to be there for fellow species identification as well as mating.
The second misconception is that Triceratops were herd creatures! To be truthful, we aren't exactly helping this misconception. It used to be believed that Triceratops would travel in herds since they were herbivores, but this isn't actually true! 95% of all fossils we have found have been in solitary examples, and the few that have included multiple Triceratops grouped together were family groups that included juvenile Triceratops. How cute!!! Remember though, while we may be solitary creatures, here in Triceratops cabin you have others and your leaders to rely on!
This has been Ceratopsians and Triceratops. I hope you're excited for next week, where we'll be covering our first new ceratopsian, the Torosaurus!
The Triceratops
The Triceratops is the most well known Ceratopsian. It was the first of it's type to be discovered and therefore was automatically cemented as the face of Ceratopsians. You all know this, of course, that's why we're here! It was discovered in 1889 and officially named by Othniel Charles Marsh, who originally thought it was a bison horn!
It was named the Triceratops by O. C. Marsh which in Greek means three-horned face. Now, O. C. Marsh is rather famous in the dinosaur business. In fact, you know our friends the Diplodocus? They were named by O. C. Marsh as well! Guess you could say we're *basically* dinosaur cousins. The triceratops has some defining features when compared to others of their genus. One of them being the lack of holes (fenestrae) in their frills! Another is the size and curve of their brow bones!
There are two confirmed species of Triceratops, the T. Horridus and the T. Prorsus. It is highly suspected that the T. Prorsus is the slightly more evolved T. Horridus. The Triceratops you would usually think of is the T. Horridus, but let's cover some differences between them!
The T. Horridus has a shorter nose horn, brow horns which are more forward directed, and a longer snout. The T. Prorsus has a longer nose horn, brow horns that go more up, and a shorter snout! Both of these species are valid triceratops, so whatever one you associate with them is completely valid! The Melbourne Museum in Victoria Australia actually has a fully complete skeleton of a T. Horridus simply nicknamed Horridus! Feel free to check out more information here.
Here's a side by side comparison of them, Horridus on the left and Prorsus on the right.
What Is A Ceratopsian?
I'm so glad you asked! A ceratopsian is a type of dinosaur and the term is a specifically a clade. Some defining traits of the Ceratopsia is that they're a herbivore, they have a frill on the back of their skull, and they have a unique upper beak bone called a rostral! Ceratopsians were part of the Cretaceous period and they lived in what is now North America, Asia, and Europe. Creatopsians went extinct during the Cretaceous-Paleogene Extinction Event, which killed all non-avian dinosaurs. The term Ceratopsian means Horned Face in Latin, which is pretty ironic considering the next piece of information I'll be telling you about!
There are three lineages of ceratopsians. The first is Psittacosauridae which were bipedal dinosaurs. They had a small frill and no horns. They were mainly based around Asia. The second is Proctoceratopsidae which were mostly quadpredal and larger then the Psittacosauridae. They had a larger frill on the back of their skull but still had no horns. They were also mainly based around Asia. The third is Ceratopsidae which where quadpredal, large, had large frills on the back of their skull, and as you probably guessed, horns! They had horns above the eyes and on the nose.
As you can probably guess our lovely Triceratops is one of these Ceratopsidae! But, Ceratopsidae has two lineages of it's own! So, let's talk about these two so you know what our triceratops is. Most importantly, this'll help us later on with our misconceptions. The first type is the Centrosaurinae. They have small eye horns and a large nose horn! The second type is a Chasmosaurinae. They have large eye horns and a small nose horn.
This is our Triceratops! But, with all these differences it's easy to get them mixed up, and understandable so! Which is why we'll be posting things here every week! We can't do that though without setting a basis, so the next post here we'll be talking about our beloved Triceratops! See you all then!