Montanoceratops
Montanoceratops (meaning "Montana horned face") was a ceratopsian dinosaur, walked on four legs, had a large head, a bulky body, a parrot-like beak, a small nose horn, cheek teeth, and a small frill on its head. Males may have had larger frills than females, indicating that the frill may have been used in courtship and mating.
| Montanoceratops Temporal range: Early Maastrichtian, | |
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| Fossil specimen, Royal Tyrrell Museum | |
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Order: | †Ornithischia |
| Family: | †Leptoceratopsidae |
| Genus: | †Montanoceratops Sternberg, 1951 |
| Species: | †M. cerorhynchos |
| Binomial name | |
| Montanoceratops cerorhynchos (Brown & Schlaikjer, 1942) | |
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Description
Montanoceratops was up to 6 feet long (1.8 m) and weighed about 900 pounds (400 kg). Montanoceratops lived in the late-Cretaceous period, about 72 to 65 million years ago, toward the end of the Mesozoic, the Age of Reptiles. Fossils have been found in Montana and Alberta, Canada.
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