Editing Triceratops (section)

==Cultural significance==
{{See also|Cultural depictions of dinosaurs}}
''Triceratops'' is the official [[state fossil]] of [[South Dakota]].<ref>{{cite web|author=State of South Dakota |title=Signs and Symbols of South Dakota..... |url=http://www.state.sd.us/state/sdsym.htm |access-date=January 20, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080220004837/http://www.state.sd.us/state/sdsym.htm |archive-date=February 20, 2008 }}</ref> It is also the official state dinosaur of [[Wyoming]].<ref>{{cite web | author = State of Wyoming | title = State of Wyoming&nbsp;– General Information | url= http://wyoming.gov/general/general.asp | access-date = January 20, 2007 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070210015835/http://wyoming.gov/general/general.asp |archive-date = February 10, 2007|url-status=dead}}</ref> In 1942, [[Charles R. Knight]] painted a mural incorporating a confrontation between a ''Tyrannosaurus'' and a ''Triceratops'' in the [[Field Museum of Natural History]] for the [[National Geographic Society]], establishing them as enemies in the popular imagination.<ref name="Bakker1986"/> Paleontologist [[Robert T. Bakker|Robert Bakker]] said of the imagined rivalry between ''[[Tyrannosauroidea|Tyrannosaurus]]'' and ''Triceratops'', "No matchup between predator and prey has ever been more dramatic. It's somehow fitting that those two massive antagonists lived out their co-evolutionary belligerence through the [[Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary|last days]] of the [[Maastrichtian|last epoch]] of the [[Mesozoic|Age of Dinosaurs]]."<ref name="Bakker1986">{{cite book|last=Bakker|first= R. T.|date= 1986|title=The Dinosaur Heresies|location=New York|publisher= Kensington Publishing| page= 240}} On that page, Bakker has his own ''T. rex''/''Triceratops'' fight.</ref>
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