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  • In reality, Triceratops fossils have only been found dating back to between 68 and 65 millions years ago, almost 20 million years after the time that Terra Nova is set.
  • Also, Triceratops fossils are only known from North America, while Carnotaurus is only known from South America. See the Science & Speculation section of the Ankylosaurus article for a discussion of how it might be possible to rationalize a mix of North American and South American species in Terra Nova in terms of a land bridge which is thought to have existed between the continents in the Late Cretaceous.
  • The baby Triceratops skeleton seen in Malcolm's lab in unrealistic, since a real baby would not have had such developed horns and shield--a reconstructed version of a real baby Triceratops skull can be found on this page.
It could also be a model, just for decoration or demonstration purposes.
  • It is possible that the Triceratops out side of Tom Boylan's bar is a cast and just for decoration.
  • Triceratops is from the Latest Cretaceous 68-65 MYA, but if the portals are a natural occurance they must show up on a regular basis than the Triceroptops could have come through a portal from 65 MYA to 85 MYA.
  • Another possibility is that the Triceratops skull was brought from any scientific expedition from other continents, like North America and Asia, where ceratopsians were around at the time. It is also possible the skull does not belong to a Triceratops but rather a ceratopsian with a simillar horn and frill ornamentation. Zuniceratops and Turanoceratops were around some six million years before the events of Terra Nova, meaning that such ceratopsians may have been around in North America and Asia, and some expeditions were made before whose result was the bringing of some elements of those continents, including the ceratopsian skull. or it could be the same thing what they did with the Ankylosaurus and may have evolved considerably earlier than any of the fossils that have been found to date.
  • Ecological speculations: since the skull look a lot like Triceratops horridus, it is safe to say that it fills the same role as it as well, being the rhino of Terra Nova and feeding on ferns and cycads or taller plants by knocking them down with their horns and beaks. The horns and frill would serve as protections from predators like Carnotaurus, Allosaur and maybe even the Empirosaur.
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