Skull from biggest known Triceratops, found?

Adam Khor

A normal sized Triceratops is about the size of an elephant... but this one is twice as big.

http://www.foxnews.com/science/2012/10/29/fossil-hunter-digs-up-huge-triceratops-skull/

(not the skull in the article)

Galvasean

Kind of annoying that the plan is to hawk the fossil off to the highest bidder as this could be very important in relation to settling the Triceratops/Torosaurus controversy. I'd be wary of the size estimates though as they stink of hype to attract more bidders. I've seen adult Triceratops skulls up close and they always exceed five feet, so the 'twice the size' claims seem to be an exaggeration.

Kess73

Galvasean wrote: »

Kind of annoying that the plan is to hawk the fossil off to the highest bidder as this could be very important in relation to settling the Triceratops/Torosaurus controversy. I'd be wary of the size estimates though as they stink of hype to attract more bidders. I've seen adult Triceratops skulls up close and they always exceed five feet, so the 'twice the size' claims seem to be an exaggeration.

Yeah the size claim is odd. Pretty sure there was an eight foot skull found before in Montana (although I may be thinking of a Torosaurus skull), as well as a number of skulls in the five to seven foot range.

Adam Khor

My bad for not reading the article calmly

Galvasean

Kess73 wrote: »

Yeah the size claim is odd. Pretty sure there was an eight foot skull found before in Montana (although I may be thinking of a Torosaurus skull), as well as a number of skulls in the five to seven foot range.

The 8 footer was a Torosaurus alright, but as the publication was by Horner et al. (during the 1 in 3 downgrade phase)the published paper had Triceratops in the title. Hence the confusion.
Even so it's not uncommon for Triceratops skulls to exceed 6 feet.