Protoceratops wasn't the griffin. Glenn Reynolds suggests we should be looking into folklore. Luckily we OldEuropeanCulture readers can default thereto.
According to that blog, the vulture symbolises the start of "winter", in November - in the Khuzestan, which is the cooler wet season. Lions quit mating around the same time. Both are visible to herdsmen. Nobody's looking at "Protoceratops". Maybe during Silk Road times some yahoo could sell the fossil and pretend they still exist, but - as the PopSci report points out - nobody was collecting those particular fossils in any musea we've found (and we've found plenty). And if these fossils did ever attract attention, the calendar attracted attention first.
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