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Ceratopsidae

Machairoceratops cronusi

"bent sword horned face"

Generic ceratopsian body-plan outline
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Machairoceratops 6 m (19.7 ft) long
as long as 4 people standing fingertip to fingertip
generic ceratopsian body plan, scaled to length — not a silhouette of Machairoceratops
Length
6 m (19.7 ft)
Period
Late Cretaceous (80.7–79.3 Mya)
Place
United States · Utah, USA
Food
Herbivore
Clade
Ceratopsidae Dinosauria Ornithischia Cerapoda Marginocephalia Big horned ceratopsians of the Late Cretaceous.
Machairoceratops reconstruction by TotalDino
Reconstruction · TotalDino (CC-BY)

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.

What we guess

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