<document ID-DOI="10.5281/zenodo.1037499" ID-GBIF-Dataset="edaefd1e-b9e7-4502-98fb-776efdefa37f" ID-Zenodo-Dep="1037499" checkinTime="1508921685306" checkinUser="plazi" docAuthor="E. D. Cope." docDate="1892" docId="03FC8783FFFAFFA5FF5A7EF5E3C10FBA" docLanguage="en" docName="Cope_1892_manospondylus gigas (almost done).pdf.imf" docOrigin="The American Naturalist 26" docStyle="DocumentStyle{}" docTitle="Claorhynchus trihedrus Cope 1892" docType="treatment" docVersion="20" lastPageNumber="757" masterDocId="FFC5FFFBFFFBFFA7FF8A7B09E0130E07" masterDocTitle="Fourth note on the Dinosauria of the Laramie." masterLastPageNumber="758" masterPageNumber="756" pageNumber="757" updateTime="1663156283657" updateUser="tatiana"> <mods:mods xmlns:mods="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3"> <mods:titleInfo> <mods:title>Fourth note on the Dinosauria of the Laramie.</mods:title> </mods:titleInfo> <mods:name type="personal"> <mods:role> <mods:roleTerm>Author</mods:roleTerm> </mods:role> <mods:namePart>E. D. Cope.</mods:namePart> </mods:name> <mods:typeOfResource>text</mods:typeOfResource> <mods:relatedItem type="host"> <mods:titleInfo> <mods:title>The American Naturalist</mods:title> </mods:titleInfo> <mods:part> <mods:date>1892</mods:date> <mods:detail type="pubDate"> <mods:number>1892-09-30</mods:number> </mods:detail> <mods:detail type="volume"> <mods:number>26</mods:number> </mods:detail> <mods:extent unit="page"> <mods:start>756</mods:start> <mods:end>758</mods:end> </mods:extent> </mods:part> </mods:relatedItem> <mods:classification>journal article</mods:classification> <mods:identifier type="DOI">10.5281/zenodo.1037499</mods:identifier> <mods:identifier type="GBIF-Dataset">edaefd1e-b9e7-4502-98fb-776efdefa37f</mods:identifier> <mods:identifier type="Zenodo-Dep">1037499</mods:identifier> </mods:mods> <treatment ID-DOI="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4914166" ID-GBIF-Taxon="159879411" ID-Zenodo-Dep="4914166" LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:03FC8783FFFAFFA5FF5A7EF5E3C10FBA" httpUri="http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC8783FFFAFFA5FF5A7EF5E3C10FBA" lastPageId="2" lastPageNumber="757" pageId="1" pageNumber="757"> <subSubSection box="[208,1213,1532,1566]" pageId="1" pageNumber="757" type="nomenclature"> <paragraph blockId="1.[172,1290,1532,2154]" box="[208,1213,1532,1566]" pageId="1" pageNumber="757"> <taxonomicName authority="Cope, 1892" authorityName="Cope" authorityYear="1892" box="[208,664,1532,1566]" class="Reptilia" family="Ceratopsidae" genus="Claorhynchus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Dinosauria" pageId="1" pageNumber="757" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="trihedrus" status="gen. et sp. nov."> <emphasis box="[208,664,1532,1566]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="757">Claorhynchus trihedrus</emphasis> </taxonomicName> .—Gen. <emphasis box="[802,833,1532,1566]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="757">et</emphasis> . sp. nov. <emphasis box="[1003,1213,1532,1566]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="757">Char. Gen.—</emphasis> </paragraph> </subSubSection> <subSubSection lastPageId="2" lastPageNumber="758" pageId="1" pageNumber="757" type="description"> <paragraph blockId="1.[172,1290,1532,2154]" pageId="1" pageNumber="757"> This genus is established on a <materialsCitation ID-GBIF-Occurrence="2433423073" box="[580,1037,1577,1611]" country="United States" formation="Laramie Formation" geologicalContextID="Cretaceous" pageId="1" pageNumber="757" preperations="rostral and predentary bones, fragments of supratemporal bone" specimenCount="1" typeStatus="type"> rostral and <emphasis box="[765,933,1577,1611]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="757">predentary</emphasis> bones </materialsCitation> of a species of the Agathaumidae, which were found together and with the fragments of a massive supratemporal <emphasis box="[645,718,1667,1701]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="757">bone</emphasis> . They are distinguished by their absolutely flat inferior faces, there being no alveolar ridges as in the forms described by <emphasis box="[486,588,1758,1792]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="757">Marsh</emphasis> . They are not compressed but are as wide as long. They are not adapted to the muzzle of Monoclonius, where the <emphasis box="[238,465,1850,1884]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="757">rostral bone is</emphasis> compressed. ( <emphasis box="[715,956,1850,1884]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="757">M. sphenocerus.</emphasis> ) </paragraph> <paragraph blockId="1.[172,1290,1532,2154]" pageId="1" pageNumber="757"> <emphasis box="[218,449,1894,1928]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="757">Char. specif.—</emphasis> Rostral and <emphasis box="[654,824,1894,1928]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="757">predentary</emphasis> bones as wide as long, with flat inferior face and rounded superior median angle. Transverse diameter <emphasis box="[329,427,1984,2018]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="757">rather</emphasis> exceeding <emphasis box="[619,667,1984,2018]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="757">the</emphasis> vertical. <emphasis box="[842,1050,1984,2018]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="757">Sides convex</emphasis> . All <emphasis box="[1165,1211,1984,2018]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="757">the</emphasis> surfaces furrowed <emphasis box="[426,463,2030,2064]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="757">by</emphasis> coarse grooves which terminate <emphasis box="[996,1023,2030,2064]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="757">in</emphasis> foramina. </paragraph> <paragraph blockId="1.[172,1290,1532,2154]" lastBlockId="2.[141,1262,366,1452]" lastPageId="2" lastPageNumber="758" pageId="1" pageNumber="757"> The <emphasis box="[298,379,2075,2109]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="757">short</emphasis> wide form of this species differs from <emphasis box="[1025,1288,2075,2109]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="757">that seen in the</emphasis> species of <emphasis box="[355,404,2120,2154]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="757">the</emphasis> family Agathaumidae which <emphasis box="[890,1052,2120,2154]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="757">have been</emphasis> yet described. The extremity of the beak had apparently a horny sheath and was adapted for crushing comparatively hard substances. </paragraph> </subSubSection> </treatment> </document>