kosmoceratops

KOZZ-moe-SEH-rah-tops

diet:

Plants

found in:

Utah, USA

period:

Late Cretaceous

beautiful nerdy facts

• Means 'Ornate horned face'.

• It was found in Utah.

• Was a Ceratopsian

• Lived during the Late Cretaceous, about 70.6 million years ago.

• Was the dinosaur with more horns, 15 in total.

• Its head and frill were almost as large as the length of its body.

• Lived on Laramidia, a large island in the west of North America.

• Was 4.5 meters long, as long as a 5 passenger medium size car 🚗

• Weighted around 1-2 tons, like rhinos 🦏

• Palaeontologists believe that Kosmoceratops might have used their horns to impress females. The size was more important than their ornamented shapes. 

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