Post by Deleted on Mar 20, 2021 13:09:32 GMT
"Dino of the Day!": Xenoceratops
Pronunciation: Zee-noe-seh-rah-tops
Meaning of name: "Alien horned face".
Species: X. foremostensis
Size: Unknown due to a lack of fossils, but is estimated to have measured around 6 metres long.
Family: Centrosaurinae (a subfamily of Ceratopsidae)
Diet: Herbivore. Likely fed on low-growing vegetation.
First fossils found: Known only from three partial skulls, the first of which was discovered by American palaeontologist, Wann Langston Jr, in the Foremost Formation of southern Alberta, Canada, in 1958. Named by M. J. Ryan, D. C. Evans and K. M. Shepherd in 2012.
Lived: 78 million years ago during the Campanian stage of the Late Cretaceous in what is now Alberta, Canada.
Pronunciation: Zee-noe-seh-rah-tops
Meaning of name: "Alien horned face".
Species: X. foremostensis
Size: Unknown due to a lack of fossils, but is estimated to have measured around 6 metres long.
Family: Centrosaurinae (a subfamily of Ceratopsidae)
Diet: Herbivore. Likely fed on low-growing vegetation.
First fossils found: Known only from three partial skulls, the first of which was discovered by American palaeontologist, Wann Langston Jr, in the Foremost Formation of southern Alberta, Canada, in 1958. Named by M. J. Ryan, D. C. Evans and K. M. Shepherd in 2012.
Lived: 78 million years ago during the Campanian stage of the Late Cretaceous in what is now Alberta, Canada.
yes, but not as gawdy.
