Chasmosaurus Lambe, 1914

Chasmosaurus Lambe, 1914 (Ottawa Natural., 27, 155. NcZ) "wide-opening (frill) lizard"
KAS-mo-SAWR-us (Gr. khasma "wide opening, chasm" + Gr. sauros "lizard") (m) Lambe explains: "name has reference to the openings in the skull, more particularly to the great size of the intraparietal fontanelles" in the frill; for a form supposedly ancestral to Torosaurus. (To replace preoccupied Protorosaurus Lambe, 1914 NcZ.) Ceratopsia Ceratopidae Chasmosaurinae L. Cret. NA.

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