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Ceratopsidae

Avaceratops lammersi

Generic ceratopsian body-plan outline
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Avaceratops 2.3 m (7.5 ft) long
as long as 2 people standing fingertip to fingertip
generic ceratopsian body plan, scaled to length — not a silhouette of Avaceratops
Length
2.3 m (7.5 ft)
Period
Late Cretaceous (77 Mya)
Place
United States
Food
Herbivore
Clade
Ceratopsidae Dinosauria Ornithischia Cerapoda Marginocephalia Big horned ceratopsians of the Late Cretaceous.
Avaceratops reconstruction by Nobu Tamura (http://spinops.blogspot.com)
Reconstruction · Nobu Tamura (http://spinops.blogspot.com) (CC-BY)

Avaceratops is a genus of small herbivorous ceratopsian dinosaurs which lived during the late Campanian in what are now the Northwest United States. Most fossils come from the Judith River Formation.

What we know

  • Named by Dodson, 1986.
  • Body length estimated at about 2.3 m.
  • Fossils found in United States.

What we guess

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