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Ceratopsidae

Albertaceratops

"Alberta horned face"

Generic ceratopsian body-plan outline
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Albertaceratops 5.8 m (19 ft) long
as long as 4 people standing fingertip to fingertip
generic ceratopsian body plan, scaled to length — not a silhouette of Albertaceratops
Length
5.8 m (19 ft)
Period
Late Cretaceous (77.5 Mya)
Place
Canada · Alberta, Canada
Food
Herbivore
Clade
Ceratopsidae Dinosauria Ornithischia Cerapoda Marginocephalia Big horned ceratopsians of the Late Cretaceous.
Albertaceratops reconstruction by Nobu Tamura (http://spinops.blogspot.com)
Reconstruction · Nobu Tamura (http://spinops.blogspot.com) (CC-BY)

Albertaceratops (meaning “Alberta horned face”) is a genus of centrosaurine horned dinosaur from the middle Campanian-age Upper Cretaceous Oldman Formation of Alberta, Canada.

What we know

  • Named by Ryan, 2007.
  • Body length estimated at about 5.8 m.
  • Fossils found in Canada and Alberta, Canada.

What we guess

The reconstruction notes for Albertaceratops — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.