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Ceratopsidae

Utahceratops

"horn"

Generic ceratopsian body-plan outline
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Utahceratops 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
generic ceratopsian body plan, scaled to length — not a silhouette of Utahceratops
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 Big horned ceratopsians of the Late Cretaceous.

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.

What we guess

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