Post by Deleted on Dec 20, 2020 3:24:55 GMT
"Dino of the Day!": Anchiceratops
Pronunciation: An-key-seh-ra-tops.
Meaning of name: "Near horned face".
Species: A. ornatus. It's possible there may be a second species.
Size: Measured between 4 and 6 metres long, 2 metres high and weighing between 1 and 2 metric tonnes.
Family: Chasmosaurinae (a sub-family of Ceratopsidae).
Diet: Herbivore. Fed on low-growing vegetation.
First fossils found: Known from a single, partial skeleton and three partial skulls. First discovered by an expedition to the Red Deer River, Alberta, Canada, led by American palaeontologist, Barnum Brown, in 1912. Named by Mr. Brown in 1914.
Lived: 72 to 71 million years ago during the Campanian and Maastrichtian stages of the Late Cretaceous in what is now western Canada.
Pronunciation: An-key-seh-ra-tops.
Meaning of name: "Near horned face".
Species: A. ornatus. It's possible there may be a second species.
Size: Measured between 4 and 6 metres long, 2 metres high and weighing between 1 and 2 metric tonnes.
Family: Chasmosaurinae (a sub-family of Ceratopsidae).
Diet: Herbivore. Fed on low-growing vegetation.
First fossils found: Known from a single, partial skeleton and three partial skulls. First discovered by an expedition to the Red Deer River, Alberta, Canada, led by American palaeontologist, Barnum Brown, in 1912. Named by Mr. Brown in 1914.
Lived: 72 to 71 million years ago during the Campanian and Maastrichtian stages of the Late Cretaceous in what is now western Canada.
