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Centrosaurus
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You can see this dinosaur in the Museum.
Information
Centrosaurus had one horn on its snout and spines around the back of its neck frill.
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Fact file
- Pronounced
- Cen-TROH-sore-us
- Meaning of name
- sharp pointed lizard
- Length
- 6m
- Height
- 2m
- Weight
- 1000kg
- Teeth
- horny beak
- Diet
- herbivorous
- Food
- tough plant material
- How it moved
- on 4 legs
- When it lived
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Late Cretaceous
(76 - 74 million years ago) - Found in
- Canada
Taxonomic details
- Taxonomy
- Dinosauria, Ornithischia, Genasauria, Cerapoda, Marginocephalia, Ceratopsia, Neoceratopsia, Coronosauria, Ceratopsomorpha, Ceratopsidae, Centrosaurinae, Centrosaurus
- Type species
- apertus
