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Pentaceratops
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This dinosaur had a very large skull, almost 3m long.
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- Pronounced
- pent-ah-ker-ah-tops
- Meaning of name
- five-horned face
- Length
- 6.8m
- Diet
- herbivorous
- When it lived
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Late Cretaceous
(76 - 74 million years ago) - Found in
- USA
Taxonomic details
- Taxonomy
- Dinosauria, Ornithischia, Genasauria, Cerapoda, Marginocephalia, Ceratopsia, Neoceratopsia, Coronosauria, Ceratopsomorpha, Ceratopsidae, Chasmosaurinae, Pentaceratops
- Named by
- Osborn (1923)
- Type species
- sternbergi