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Dino pisze:Cerasinops został odkryty i nazwany przez Brendę Chinnery oraz Jacka Hornera.

Paleontologists identify shelved Choteau find as new species.

Montana State University paleontologist Jack Horner says a dinosaur skeleton he discovered on a ranch south of Choteau is a new species that links North American and Asian dinosaurs.

The nearly complete skeleton was found in 1983, but it took two decades before Horner found an expert who could identify it as a unique species of Ceratopsian, or horned dinosaur.

"I knew it was probably a new dinosaur, but it took someone that really knew what they were doing to be able to describe it," Horner said.

Brenda Chinnery, a University of Texas paleontologist who specializes in horned dinosaurs, confirmed Horner's suspicions. She and Horner co-authored a paper on the find published this month in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.
The fossil came from sediment that dates back roughly 80 million years. Alive, it would have weighed 30 to 40 pounds, standing three feet tall.

Horner named the dinosaur Cerasinops hodgskissi after Wilson Hodgskiss, the owner of the ranch where the new species was discovered.

Hodgskiss gave Horner permission to collect the bones, which were discovered on a rocky hill about 12 miles southwest of Choteau, for MSU's Museum of the Rockies.

"Dad just wanted to know that it was going to the betterment of education," his son Lyle Hodgskiss said Monday. "It's kind of neat that Horner honored him this way."

Hodgskiss died in 1998, never knowing the importance of the species found on his land.

His widow Maryetta Hodgskiss said they took Horner's open invitation to see the fossil in Bozeman. Since its discovery, it has been stored at the Museum of the Rockies, but Horner intends to display it this winter.

Back in 1983, Horner and the other paleontologists marked other possible finds, intending to come back to dig more.

Then in 1984, Horner turned his attention to Egg Mountain, where the world famous discovery of duckbill dinosaur bones changed paleontologists' theories on dinosaurs.

"It was very, very interesting to watch them working. They had it all marked out and plaster to protect it," Maryetta Hodgskiss said. "I'm really surprised to hear this, after all these years."

The dinosaur is such a simple specimen that Horner said it doesn't have distinguishing characteristics to describe.

Tests showed that it represents a very primitive species that shares characteristics of neo-ceratopsian dinosaurs in North America and Asia. Unlike other ceratopsian dinosaurs, the C. hodgskissi does not have horns.

Horner is curator of paleontology at the museum. Chinnery worked at Johns Hopkins University before doing postdoctoral research with him at MSU. She left MSU about two years ago.

Horner's team of paleontologists recently ventured to Mongolia, collecting more than 80 skeletons of even more primitive dinosaurs than the Choteau Ceratops. Last year the paleontologists discovered 67 skeletons at the same site.

The project is a joint effort between MSU and Mongolia's Science and Technology University.

Sebastian pisze:Dinozaura tego dokryto kilkadziesiąt lat temu, a o fakcie tym pisze już w 1929 roku Gilmore.

On the basis of 40Ar/39Ar analyses, deposition of the Two Medicine Formation commenced approximately 83 million years ago and continued until approximately 74 million years ago

Lower Two Medicine Formation

Miejsce: Two Medicine, Montana, USA

kampan- około

zostały odkryte w regionie Two Medicine

Gatunek typowy- Cerasinops hodgskissi

Dinozaura tego dokryto kilkadziesiąt

Cerasinops- Chinnery i Horner, 2007
Cerasinops hodgskissi- Chinnery i Horner, 2007