Coahuilaceratops magnacuerna Coahuilaceratops

"horned face from Coahuila"

You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Coahuilaceratops 4 m (13.1 ft) long
3 people holding hands
Length
4 m (13.1 ft)
Period
Late Cretaceous (71.5–70.5 Mya)
Place
Mexico · India
Food
Herbivore
Clade
Ceratopsidae Dinosauria Ornithischia Cerapoda Marginocephalia

Coahuilaceratops (meaning “horned face from Coahuila”) is a genus of chasmosaurine ceratopsian dinosaur that lived during the early Maastrichtian age of the Late Cretaceous epoch, about 71.5 to 70.5 million years ago in what is now northern Mexico. It contains a single species, Coahuilaceratops magnacuerna.

What we know

  • Named by Loewen et al., 2010.
  • Body length estimated at about 4 m.
  • Fossils found in Mexico and India.