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Torosaurus

Torosaurus

Pronunciation:: tor-oh-SORE-us
Name meaning:: 'bull lizard'

Torosaurus

ceratopsian silhouette

Type of dinosaur:: ceratopsian
Length:: 7.5m

Diet:: herbivorous
When it lived:: Late Cretaceous, 70-65 million years ago
Found in:: Canada, USA

This dinosaur may have lived in social groups. It has the largest display crest of any ceratopsian and, like all the others, had a 'beak' for grazing.

Taxonomic details

Taxonomy:: Dinosauria, Ornithischia, Genasauria, Cerapoda, Marginocephalia, Ceratopsia, Neoceratopsia, Coronosauria, Ceratopsidae, Chasmosaurinae
Named by:: Marsh (1891)
Type species:: latus

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