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Ceratopsidae

Sierraceratops turneri

"Sierra horned face"

Generic ceratopsian body-plan outline
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Sierraceratops 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 Sierraceratops
Length
6 m (19.7 ft)
Period
Late Cretaceous (72 Mya)
Place
United States · Mexico · New Mexico, USA
Food
Herbivore
Clade
Ceratopsidae Dinosauria Ornithischia Cerapoda Marginocephalia Big horned ceratopsians of the Late Cretaceous.

Sierraceratops (meaning “Sierra horned face”) is a genus of chasmosaurine ceratopsian from the Late Cretaceous Hall Lake Formation of New Mexico, United States. The genus contains a single species, Sierraceratops turneri, known from a partial skeleton discovered in 1997.

What we know

  • Named by Dalman et al., 2022.
  • Fossils found in United States and Mexico.

What we guess

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