Anchiceratops

Anchiceratops

Pronunciation:
an-key-SERRA-tops
Name meaning:
'near horned lizard'
Anchiceratops
ceratopsian silhouette
Type of dinosaur:
ceratopsian
Length:
6.0m
Diet:
herbivorous herbivorous food icon
When it lived:
Late Cretaceous, 74-70 million years ago
Found in:
Canada

Taxonomic details

Taxonomy:
Dinosauria, Ornithischia, Neornithischia, Cerapoda, Marginocephalia, Ceratopsia, Neoceratopsia, Coronosauria, Ceratopsidae, Chasmosaurinae
Named by:
Brown (1914)
Type species:
ornatus

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