• DOI:10.2475/ajs.s3-41.244.339
• Corpus ID: 130653625

Restoration of Triceratops.

@article{Marsh1891RestorationOT,
  title={Restoration of Triceratops.},
  author={Othniel Charles Marsh},
  journal={American Journal of Science},
  year={1891},
  volume={s3-41},
  pages={339 - 342}
}

• O. C. Marsh
• Published 1 April 1891
• Environmental Science
• American Journal of Science

IN previons numbers of this Journal, the writer has given the principal characters of the gigantic Oeratopsidw, or horned Dinosaurs, from the Laramie, with figures of the more important parts of the skull and skeleton.* The abundant material now available for examination makes it possible to attempt a restoration of one characteristic form, and the result is given in Plate XV. This figure, about one-fortieth of natural size, is reduced from a large outline plate of a memoir on this group, now in preparation by the writer for the United States Geological Survey. This restoration is mainly based on two specimens. One of these is the type of T'l'iceratops p1'orSU8, Marsh, in which the skull, lower jaw, and cervical vertebrm are in remarkable preservation. The other specimen, although somewhat larger, is referred to the same species. It consists of parts of the skull, of vertebrre, the pelvic arch, and nearly aU the important limb bones. The remaining portions are mostly taken from other remains found in the same horizon and localities, and at present are not to be distinguished specifically from the two specimens above mentioned. The skull as here represented corresponds in scale to the skeleton of the larger individual. In this restoration, the animal is represented as walking, and the enormous head is in a position adapted to that motion. The