A previous research paper from Queen Mary found that the frill in one
ceratopsian species, Protoceratops, may have evolved under sexual selection.
You would expect that when a lot of
ceratopsian species lived side by side, they would evolve a bigger variation of ornaments than more solitary species.
Not exact matches
Triceratops, for example, belongs to a big group of
species called
ceratopsians, many of which had frills and horns in a dizzying variety of shapes and sizes.