Prenoceratops pieganensis Prenoceratops
"bent or prone-horned face"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Prenoceratops 1.3 m (4.3 ft) long
2 people holding hands
- Length
- 1.3 m (4.3 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (74.3 Mya)
- Place
- Canada · Alberta, Canada · Montana, USA
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Leptoceratopsidae
Prenoceratops, (meaning ‘bent or prone-horned face’ and derived from Greek prene-/πρηνη- meaning ‘bent forwards’ or ‘prone’, cerat-/κερατ- meaning ‘horn’ and -ops/ωψ meaning ‘face’) is a genus of herbivorous ceratopsian dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Period. It was a relatively small dinosaur, reaching 1.3 m in length and 20 kg in body mass. Its fossils have been found in the upper Two Medicine Formation in the present-day U.S. state of Montana, in Campanian age rock layers that have been dated to 74.3 million years ago. Fossils were also found in the Oldman Formation in the modern day Canadian province of Alberta, dating to around 77 million years ago.
What we know
- Named by Chinnery, 2004.
- Body length estimated at about 1.3 m.
- Fossils found in Canada and Alberta, Canada.