A new specimen of Chasmosaurus belli (Ornithischia: Ceratopsidae), a revision of the genus, and the utility of postcrania in the taxonomy and systematics of ceratopsid dinosaurs
Author
Maidment, Susannah C. R.
Author
Barrett, Paul M.
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Zootaxa
2011
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journal article
10.5281/zenodo.278172
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278172
Chasmosaurus belli
Lambe, 1902
Monoclonius belli
Lambe 1902
: 59
Monoclonius canadensis
Lambe 1902
: 63
Ceratops belli
Hatcher et al. 1907
: 97
Ceratops canadensis
Hatcher et al. 1907
: 97
Protorosaurus belli
Lambe 1914: 131
Chasmosaurus belli
Lambe 1914: 149
Eoceratops canadensis
Lambe 1915
: 2
Chasmosaurus kaiseni
Brown 1933
: 2
Chasmosaurus brevirostris
Lull 1933
: 94
Chasmosaurus canadensis
Lehman 1989
: 139
Amended diagnosis.
Taxon displaying the combination of characters unique to the genus
Chasmosaurus
along with the following features: (1) parietal posterior bar bearing no median emargination and is nearly straight so that it forms a âTâ shape with the parietal median bar; (2) lateral pair of epiparietals large and triangular; others, when preserved, are smaller (after
Godfrey & Holmes 1995
). Both characters are autapomorphic for
C. belli
within
Chasmosaurus
.
Holotype
.
CMN
491, a partial parietal. Although fragmentary, the
holotype
is diagnostic based on the combination of generic character 4, and specific character 1, a combination not observed in any other chasmosaurine.
Distribution.
Middle and upper beds of the Dinosaur Park Formation, Alberta,
Canada
(
Ryan & Evans 2005
).
Referred specimens.
CMN
2245;
AMNH
5402;
ROM
843;
YPM
2016;
NHMUK
R4948 (after
Ryan & Evans 2005
). The
NHMUK
specimen is referred to
Chasmosaurus
because it possesses characters 1, 3, 4 and 5 from the diagnosis of
Chasmosaurus
(above); it is referred to
C. belli
because it possesses character 1 from the diagnosis of
C. belli
(above).
Specimens removed from
C. belli
.
ROM
839 was referred to
C. belli
by
Ryan and Evans (2005)
and
Longrich (2010)
, but is not diagnosable to species level based on the amended diagnosis presented here and represents
Chasmosaurus
sp.