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Ceratopsidae

Anchiceratops ornatus angkee-SƐRUHTOPS

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Generic ceratopsian body-plan outline
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Anchiceratops 4.3 m (14.1 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
generic ceratopsian body plan, scaled to length — not a silhouette of Anchiceratops
Length
4.3 m (14.1 ft)
Period
Late Cretaceous (73–68 Mya)
Place
Canada · Alberta, Canada
Food
Herbivore
Clade
Ceratopsidae Dinosauria Ornithischia Cerapoda Marginocephalia Big horned ceratopsians of the Late Cretaceous.
Anchiceratops reconstruction by LadyofHats
Reconstruction · LadyofHats (CC0)

Anchiceratops ( ) is an extinct genus of chasmosaurine ceratopsid dinosaur that lived approximately 73 to 68 million years ago during the latter part of the Cretaceous Period in what is now Alberta, Canada. Anchiceratops was a medium-sized, heavily built, ground-dwelling, quadrupedal herbivore that could grow up to an estimated 4.3 m long. Its skull featured two long brow horns and a short horn on the nose. The skull frill was elongated and rectangular, its edges adorned by coarse triangular projections. About a dozen skulls of the genus have been found.

What we know

  • Named by Brown, 1914.
  • Body length estimated at about 4.3 m.
  • Fossils found in Canada and Alberta, Canada.

What we guess

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