Travel Bug Dog Tag Dinosaurs Walking the Earth #1 :Triceratops

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Sunday, April 22, 2007
Origin:
United Kingdom
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My mission is to wander, meet others of my kind, have the occasional photo taken and eat plenty of cycads and ferns.

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Triceratops is one of the most famous and distictive of all the dinosaurs. It lived at the very end of the Cretaceous period up to the time of the Chicxulub impact. Judging by the number of fossils, it was the most numerous dinosaur in the continental US, ranging as far North as Saskatchewan and Alberta in Canada, down through Montana, Wyoming, Colorado and New Mexico in the US.

The first fossils were discovered by the team of Edward Cope, but they were of such poor quality that he thought they were from a bison. It was his arch rival, Othniel Marsh who named Triceratops(three horned face) in 1889. Only two species of Triceratops are officially established, T.horridus and T.prorsus, with another seven designations considered doubtful due to the poor quality of the specimens.

Triceratops belongs to the family Ceratopsidae(horned face), thought to have evolved from Psittacosaurus - a bipedal dinosaur - and Protoceratops, which are found in Mongolia. So it seems that the Ceratopsids moved East as they evolved and reverted to a four-legged gait.

Triceratops were herbivorous and replaced their teeth throughout their lives. They had up to 80 batteries of teeth in each jaw, stacked up 5 deep, which means they had up to 800 teeth! This leads paleobiologists to conclude that Triceratops fed on low, fibrous material like ferns and cycads.

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Write note 6/29/2015 wouter en michelle posted a note for it   Visit Log

Hij lag er niet in
Discovered It 2/11/2011 Marc_41 discovered it   Visit Log

Trouvé!
Dropped Off 1/30/2011 sylberfil placed it in SAN LUEN 😉 Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France - 9.97 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 1/26/2011 sylberfil retrieved it from Claviers # 1, le village Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France   Visit Log

On the road again
Discovered It 12/17/2010 2bupa discovered it   Visit Log

Today seen in Claviers # 1
Dropped Off 9/24/2010 Olden Retrievers placed it in Claviers # 1, le village Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France - 2.56 miles  Visit Log
  • Mr Triceratops does his balancing act! He was going to be left at a cache (GC1WMX6) by this bridge - but the cache had been muggled so he stayed with us for a bit longer!
  • Mr Triceratops enjoys the view So we went back and left him at Claviers 1 - but he had a good look at the view first and a small leafy snack ...
Retrieve It from a Cache 9/20/2010 Olden Retrievers retrieved it from LE BEL HOMME Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France   Visit Log

Nice view up here - we'll take him somewhere else!

This entry was edited by Olden Retrievers on Saturday, 09 October 2010 at 11:29:40.
Dropped Off 8/1/2010 oliv74 placed it in LE BEL HOMME Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France - 505.94 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 7/11/2010 oliv74 retrieved it from Bois de Dossemer Hainaut, Belgium   Visit Log

enlevé ce 11 juillet de Blandain pour le replacer ???? A bientôt...
Dropped Off 12/6/2009 bradgi placed it in Bois de Dossemer Hainaut, Belgium - 43.96 miles  Visit Log
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