Machairoceratops cronusi Machairoceratops
"bent sword horned face"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Machairoceratops 6 m (19.7 ft) long
4 people holding hands
- Length
- 6 m (19.7 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (80.7–79.3 Mya)
- Place
- United States · Utah, USA
- Food
- Herbivore
Machairoceratops (meaning “bent sword horned face”), previously known as the “Wahweap centrosaurine B”, is an extinct genus of centrosaurine ceratopsian dinosaur known from the Late Cretaceous Wahweap Formation (late Campanian stage) of Grand Staircase–Escalante National Monument, southern Utah, United States.
What we know
- Named by Lund et al., 2016.
- Fossils found in United States and Utah, USA.