Montanoceratops mon-tanoh-SƐRUHTOPS
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You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Montanoceratops 2.5 m (8.2 ft) long
2 people holding hands
- Length
- 2.5 m (8.2 ft)
- Period
- Cretaceous (145–66 Mya)
- Place
- Alberta, Canada · Montana, USA
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Leptoceratopsidae
Montanoceratops is an extinct genus of small ceratopsian dinosaur that lived approximately 70 million years ago during the latter part of the Cretaceous Period in what is now Montana and Alberta. Montanoceratops was a small sized, moderately-built, ground-dwelling, quadrupedal herbivore, that could grow up to an estimated 2.5 m in length and 170 kg in body mass.
What we know
- Named by (Brown & Schlaikjer, 1942).
- Body length estimated at about 2.5 m.
- Fossils found in Alberta, Canada and Montana, USA.