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- Torosaurus abstract "Torosaurus (\"perforated lizard\", in reference to the large openings in its frill) is a genus of herbivorous ceratopsid dinosaur that lived during the late Maastrichtian stage of the Cretaceous period, between 68 and 66 million years ago. Fossils have been discovered across the Western Interior of North America, from Saskatchewan to southern Texas. Torosaurus possessed one of the largest skulls of any known land animal. The frilled skull reached up to 2.77 metres (9.1 ft) in length. From head to tail, Torosaurus is thought to have measured about 7.6 to 9 m (25 to 30 ft) long and weighed four to six tonnes. Torosaurus is distinguished from the contemporary Triceratops by an elongate frill with large openings (fenestrae), long squamosal bones of the frill with a trough on their upper surface, and the presence of five or more pairs of hornlets (epoccipitals) on the back of the frill. Torosaurus also lacked the long nose horn seen in Triceratops prorsus, and instead resembled the earlier and more basal Triceratops horridus in having a short nose horn. Three species have been named, Torosaurus latus, T. gladius and T. utahensis. T. gladius is no longer considered a valid species, however.Recently the validity of Torosaurus has been disputed. A 2010 study of fossil bone histology combined with an investigation of frill shape concluded that Torosaurus probably represented the mature form of Triceratops, with the bones of typical Triceratops specimens still immature and showing signs of a first development of distinct Torosaurus frill holes. During maturation, the skull frill would have been greatly lengthened and holes would have appeared in it. In 2011, 2012 and 2013 however, studies of external features of known specimens have claimed that morphological differences between the two genera preclude their synonymy. The main problems are a lack of good transitional forms, the apparent existence of authentic Torosaurus subadults, different skull proportions independent of maturation and the assertion that hole formation at an adult stage is not part of a normal ceratopsian maturation sequence.".
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- Torosaurus wikiPageWikiLink Artifact_(error).
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- Torosaurus wikiPageWikiLink Big_Bend_(Texas).
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- Torosaurus wikiPageWikiLink Category:Chasmosaurines.
- Torosaurus wikiPageWikiLink Category:Cretaceous_dinosaurs.
- Torosaurus wikiPageWikiLink Category:Dinosaurs_of_North_America.
- Torosaurus wikiPageWikiLink Category:Maastrichtian_life.
- Torosaurus wikiPageWikiLink Centrosaurinae.
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- Torosaurus wikiPageWikiLink Jack_Horner_(paleontologist).
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- Torosaurus wikiPageWikiLink Morphometrics.
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- Torosaurus wikiPageWikiLink Phylogenetics.
- Torosaurus wikiPageWikiLink Prediction.
- Torosaurus wikiPageWikiLink Rebecca_Hunt.
- Torosaurus wikiPageWikiLink Richard_Swann_Lull.
- Torosaurus wikiPageWikiLink Robert_Sullivan_(paleontologist).
- Torosaurus wikiPageWikiLink Saskatchewan.
- Torosaurus wikiPageWikiLink Sexual_dimorphism.
- Torosaurus wikiPageWikiLink South_Dakota.
- Torosaurus wikiPageWikiLink Species.
- Torosaurus wikiPageWikiLink Squamosal_bone.
- Torosaurus wikiPageWikiLink Synonym_(taxonomy).
- Torosaurus wikiPageWikiLink Testability.
- Torosaurus wikiPageWikiLink Texas.
- Torosaurus wikiPageWikiLink Thomas_Lehman.
- Torosaurus wikiPageWikiLink Timeline_of_ceratopsian_research.