Utahceratops Utahceratops

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You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Utahceratops 5 m (16.4 ft) long
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Length
5 m (16.4 ft)
Period
Late Cretaceous (76.4–75.5 Mya)
Place
Utah, USA
Food
Herbivore
Clade
Ceratopsidae Dinosauria Ornithischia Cerapoda Marginocephalia

Utahceratops is an extinct genus of ceratopsian dinosaur that lived approximately 76.4~75.5 million years ago during the Late Cretaceous period in what is now Utah. Utahceratops was a large-sized, robustly-built, ground-dwelling, quadrupedal herbivore, that could grow up to an estimated 4.5 – 5 m long.

What we know

  • Named by Sampson et al., 2010.
  • Body length estimated at about 5 m.
  • Fossils found in Utah, USA.