[Ads-l] Fw: Antedating of "Triceratops"

Fri Jul 21 22:27:00 UTC 2023

Good work, Fred and Bill. Here are some links to the journal article Bill found:

Date: August 1889
Journal: American Journal of Science
Volume 38, Number 224
Appendix: Article XXI: Notice of gigantic horned Dinosauria from the Cretaceous
Author: Othniel Charles Marsh

https://www.ajsonline.org/content/s3-38/224/173
https://doi.org/10.2475/ajs.s3-38.224.173

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There appear to be two or three genera, and several well-marked
species, already discovered, and the object of the
present paper is to notice briefly some of their characteristic
features so far as investigated.

Triceratops horridus, gen. nov.
[End excerpt]

Garson

On Fri, Jul 21, 2023 at 11:59 AM Bill Mullins <amcombill at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> Unfortunately, the metadata from Newspapers.com on Fred's 1889 cite below is wrong.  The actual date of the cite, from the page image, is Jan 29 1896.
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> 1889 O. C. Marsh "Notice of Gigantic Horned Dinosauria from the Cretaceous" in The American Journal of Science, Series 3, Vol 38, No. 224 Aug. 174
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> It represents a genus distinct from the type of the family, which may be called Triceratops.
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> Triceratops (OED 1892)
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> 1889 _Knoxville Daily Journal_ 13 Jan. 8 (Newspapers.com)  The mouth of the triceratops was protected by a horny beak.
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