Genus: Nedoceratops UKRAINSKY,
2007
Etymology. The name Nedoceratops consists of the Russian prefix "nedo" meaning
insufficiency and the generic name Ceratops Marsh, 1888.
= Diceratops HATCHER vide LULL, 1905 non FOERSTER, 1868 (Diceratops bicornis, Insecta, Hymenoptera)
Etymology: Greek, di- “two”, Greek, ceratops, “horn face”:
“two horn face”.
= Diceratus MATEUS, 2008
Etymology: Greek, di- “two”, Greek, ceratos, “horned": “two
horned.”
= Triceratops subgenus Diceratops LULL, 1933
Species: hatcheri (HATCHER vide LULL, 1905/MARSH, HATCHER & LULL,
1907) UKRAINSKY, 2007
= Diceratops hatcheri HATCHER vide LULL,
1905/MARSH, HATCHER & LULL, 1907
Etymology: In honor of John Bell Hatcher.
= Triceratops hatcheri (HATCHER vide LULL,
1905/MARSH, HATCHER & LULL, 1907) LULL, 1933
= Triceratops subgenus Diceratops
hatcheri
(HATCHER vide LULL, 1905/MARSH, HATCHER & LULL, 1907) LULL, 1933
= Diceratus hatcheri (HATCHER
vide LULL, 1905/MARSH, HATCHER & LULL, 1907) MATEUS, 2008
Holotype: USNM 2412
Locality: 3 miles southwest of the mouth of Lightning Creek, Converse County, Wyoming.
Horizon: Lance Formation.
Biostratigraphy:
Age: Lancian age, upper Maastrichtian Stage, uppermost Senonian subepoch,
Upper Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.
Note: Paleopathology, the skull has several ‘holes’ in the frill.
Material: Skull lacking tips of horns and parietals had been eroded away.
Referred material:
OSTROM & WELLNHOFFER, 1986
Locality: Lance Creek, Wyoming.
Horizon: Lance Formation.
Biostratigraphy:
Age: Lancian age, upper Maastrichtian Stage, uppermost Senonian subepoch, Upper Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.
Material:
YPM 1833:
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Species: albertensis (STERNBERG, 1949)
Etymology: In reference to the Province of Alberta, Canada.
= Triceratops albertensis (STERNBERG, 1949)
Holotype: NMC 8862
Locality: Dry Island Buffalo Jump Provincial Park, NW 1/4, sec. 2, tp. 34, R22, W. 4th mer. on the West side of Red Deer River, Wheatland County, Alberta Province, Canada.
Horizon: Scollard Formation, Uppermost Edmonton Group.
Biostratigraphy:
Age: Lancian Age, uppermost Maastrichtian Stage, uppermost Senonian subepoch, Upper Upper Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.
Material: Left half of skull behind the nasal horncore, 2 dorsal vertebrae and several ribs.
Referred material:
LERBEKMO, SINGH, JARZEN & RUSSELL, 1979/RUSSELL & SINGH, 1978
Locality: In a coulee tributary in the Red Deer River valley, NW 1/4, Sect. 10, Tp.34, R.22, W4, Wheatland County, Alberta, Canada.
Horizon: 6m above cf. Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton and 4.5m below the Nevis coal seam, Scollard Formation, Uppermost Edmonton Group.
Biostratigraphy:
Age: Lancian Age, uppermost Maastrichtian Stage, uppermost Senonian subepoch, Upper Upper Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.
Material:
NMC 9542: Occipital condyle and a fragment of crest.
= Triceratops cf. albertensis BRAMAN & EBERTH, 1987
Locality: Dry Island Buffalo Jump Provincial Park, NW ¼, S 7 [ ?], T34, R21, oppiste mouth of Big Valley Creek, from sandy clay about 90 feet below ?Ardley Coal Seam, Wheatland County, Alberta Province, Canada.
Horizon: Scollard Formation, Uppermost Edmonton Group.
Biostratigraphy:
Age: Lancian Age, uppermost Maastrichtian Stage, uppermost Senonian subepoch, Upper Upper Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.
Material:
NMC 8861: Brow horns, dentary and lots of frill fragments.
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