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Ceratopsidae

Spiclypeus shipporum

"spike shield"

Generic ceratopsian body-plan outline
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Spiclypeus 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 Spiclypeus
Length
6 m (19.7 ft)
Period
Late Cretaceous (76.24–75.21 Mya)
Place
United States · Montana, USA
Food
Herbivore
Clade
Ceratopsidae Dinosauria Ornithischia Cerapoda Marginocephalia Big horned ceratopsians of the Late Cretaceous.
Spiclypeus reconstruction by ABelov2014
Reconstruction · ABelov2014 (CC-BY)

Spiclypeus (meaning “spike shield”) is an extinct genus of chasmosaurine ceratopsian dinosaur known from the Late Cretaceous Judith River Formation (late Campanian stage) of Montana, United States.

What we know

  • Named by Mallon et al., 2016.
  • Body length estimated at about 6 m.
  • Fossils found in United States and Montana, USA.

What we guess

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