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Definition of Genus triceratops
1. Noun. Genus of herbivorous horned dinosaurs.
Group relationships: Ceratopsia, Suborder Ceratopsia
Member holonyms: Triceratops
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Triceratops
Literary usage of Genus triceratops
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Geological Magazine by Henry Woodward (1891)
"This restoration gives a correct idea of the general proportions of the entire
skeleton in the genus Triceratops. The size, in life, would be about ..."
2. Text-book of Geology by Archibald Geikie (1903)
"... the genus Triceratops, so named from the third rhinoceros-like nasal horn.
Some of their skulls exceeded 6 feet in length, exclusive of the horny beak, ..."
3. The Journal of Geology by University of Chicago Department of Geology and Paleontology (1907)
"... examined the collections, states that the Dinosaurs belong to the genus
Triceratops, clearly indicating that these red beds are of late Cretaceous age. ..."
4. Animals Before Man in North America: Their Lives and Times by Frederic Augustus Lucas (1902)
"... but apparently restricted in territory, were the huge dinosaurs of the genus
Triceratops, three-horned face. These, too, have been often described, ..."
5. Geology and Economic Deposits of a Portion of Eastern Montana by Jesse Perry Rowe, Roy Arthur Wilson (1916)
"The genus Triceratops is the most common and may be classed as the type vertebrate.
Taken as a whole, the life of the Lance time was such as would be found ..."
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