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Torosaurus
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This dinosaur may have lived in social groups. It has the largest display crest of any ceratopian and, like all the others, had a 'beak' for grazing.
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- Pronounced
- tor-oh-SORE-us
- Meaning of name
- bull lizard
- Length
- 7.5m
- Diet
- herbivorous
- When it lived
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Late Cretaceous
(70 - 65 million years ago) - Found in
- Canada, USA
Taxonomic details
- Taxonomy
- Dinosauria, Ornithischia, Genasauria, Cerapoda, Marginocephalia, Ceratopsia, Neoceratopsia, Coronosauria, Ceratopsomorpha, Ceratopsidae, Chasmosaurinae, Torosaurus
- Named by
- Marsh (1891)
- Type species
- latus