The Forgotten Ceratopsian

I think every dinosaur fan should have realized that 2010 truly was the year of the Ceratopsians. Just after we apparently lost Torosaurus to Triceratops a whole bunch of new species was described. And obviously this trend continued into 2011. However, it should be noted that one of the new discoveries of 2011 isn´t actually new.

The fragments of an unknown Centrosaurine were brought to the Natural History Museum in London in 1916 and were ignored for almost a century. In 2011 the Ceratopsian species finally got its name: Spinops sternbergorum. But during the last 95 years a lot has changed in the dinosaur world. His "fellow friends" mentioned in panel 3 are Ceratopsian species which were already known before 1916. Today there are so many weird-looking Ceratopsians it´s understandable Spinops is confused.

The "weirdos" in order are: Nasutoceratops titusi (named in 2011, published in 2013), Medusaceratops lokii (2010), Diabloceratops eatoni (2010), Kosmoceratops richardsoni (2010), Pachyrhinosaurus lakustai (2008; the type species P. canadensis is from 1950) and Einiosaurus procurvicornis (1995).

Sometimes I miss the old times when all Ceratopsians in my books looked either like some variation on Triceratops or "Monoclonius".