Comments on: Diabloceratops Gets Ready for its Debut

By: Dinosaur delivery « Grand Staircase Escalante Partners

Dinosaur delivery « Grand Staircase Escalante Partners — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 23:24:40 +0000

[...] Noel delivered the new cast of a Diabloceratops skull, made for us by a company in Colorado. Diabloceratops was a plant eater who lived 81 million years ago. The BLM info sheet on this guy describes him as a “cranky Cretaceous critter” that was “the size of a mini-van, with a lavish headdress, intimidating horns and a grouchy disposition.” (For more on Diablo‘s discovery on the Monument, click here.) [...]

By: Doug

Doug — Thu, 20 May 2010 15:46:25 +0000

220mya: nope. Diabloceratops for sure. Unmistakable: http://www.flickr.com/photos/via/2709335102/

By: Jim Kirkland

Jim Kirkland — Thu, 20 May 2010 03:11:24 +0000

The Ogden paper seems to have jumped the gun in their eagerness to announce that the species was too be named after their own Jeff Eaton. Jeff will be in Europe when the paper comes out, so Weber State Univ. pr people (not Jeff) jumped the gun with local paper. It will be official May 28th or so we alllll hope. The U. of U. will be announcing a cool new ceratopsian from Mexico with the books release. They will unveil the very cool skull constructed by Rob Gaston (the craftsman that cast our skull)at that time. After getting our possible Tenontosaurus out of the ground, in early June, we might do an announcement on our paper on forensic entomology of Protoceratops skulls from Mongollia (ie. Maggots in Mongolia!). The publication of this new book on horned-dinosaurs will result in a barrage of announcements regarding new discoveries from all over. Should be fun.

By: Zach Miller

Zach Miller — Wed, 19 May 2010 23:38:44 +0000

I keep forgetting that Scott has his own blog now.

Assuming the book isn’t pushed back anymore (scheduled for release in just…9 days!), I’ll finally get a chance to read about the mystery ceratopsian I’d read about on the interwebs some three or four years ago. Exciting! I’ll be interested to see where it falls out, phylogenetically speaking.

By: Mike Skrepnick

Mike Skrepnick — Wed, 19 May 2010 21:58:12 +0000

A cast of this skull has been displayed at the annual Society of Paleontology meetings for several years now, simply referred to as the “last chance” skull, prior to officially being named.

By: 220mya

220mya — Wed, 19 May 2010 17:05:53 +0000

Doug - are you sure you're not confusing Diabloceratos with a possible cast of Styracosaurus and/or Achelousaurus?

By: Doug

Doug — Wed, 19 May 2010 15:36:49 +0000

Such an awesome skull. Though i think a cast or model of it has been on display at the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh for a couple years now. But it is yet another reason i want to search the late cretaceous of Utah. So much to find and learn from that place.