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Ceratopsidae

Coahuilaceratops magnacuerna

"horned face from Coahuila"

Generic ceratopsian body-plan outline
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Coahuilaceratops 4 m (13.1 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
generic ceratopsian body plan, scaled to length — not a silhouette of Coahuilaceratops
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 Big horned ceratopsians of the Late Cretaceous.

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.

What we guess

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