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While the frills have been suggested as display structures, their horns have been hypothesized as intraspecific combat weapons with various fighting styles from modern analogs providing ample baselines for testing. However, while direct fossil evidence of intraspecific combat does exist, an absence of biomechanical data makes determining whether different ceratopsid taxa were best suited to specific combat styles very difficult. Here we used 3D finite element analysis to model differences in biomechanical performance in simulated combat behaviors of five ceratopsian taxa (\n                    <jats:italic>Psittacosaurus<\/jats:italic>\n                    ,\n                    <jats:italic>Protoceratops<\/jats:italic>\n                    ,\n                    <jats:italic>Centrosaurus<\/jats:italic>\n                    ,\n                    <jats:italic>Spiclypeus<\/jats:italic>\n                    , and\n                    <jats:italic>Triceratops<\/jats:italic>\n                    ). Size-corrected results indicate that\n                    <jats:italic>Psittacosaurus<\/jats:italic>\n                    and\n                    <jats:italic>Protoceratops<\/jats:italic>\n                    skulls, which lack elaborate horns, exhibit high and low stress cranial stress magnitudes respectively. The nasal horn of\n                    <jats:italic>Centrosaurus<\/jats:italic>\n                    was well-suited for accommodating vertical and longitudinal stresses but much less so for mediolateral ones. The supraorbital horns of\n                    <jats:italic>Spiclypeus<\/jats:italic>\n                    and\n                    <jats:italic>Triceratops<\/jats:italic>\n                    demonstrate consistently low-to-moderate stresses across most tests, correlating with various fighting behaviors. These results suggest that differing intraspecific combat behaviors may be an evolutionary driver of ceratopsian cranial weaponry, with strong skulls being a result of phylogenetic inertia from earlier members of the clade. 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