Outline: a typical ceratopsian
Albertaceratops
al-BER-tah-SER-ah-tops
"Alberta horned face"
- Lived
- 84 to 72 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Length
- estimates range from 5 to 7 m (16 to 23 ft)
- Group
- Ceratopsians, Ceratopsidae
- Found in
- Canada and United States
- Named by
- Ryan 2007
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
80 million years ago
Field notes
About Albertaceratops
What it was like
Albertaceratops was a horned dinosaur about 5 to 7 meters (16 to 23 feet) long. Unlike most of its close relatives, it had long horns over its eyes and only a low bump on its nose, and its frill carried two large hooks curling outward.
Its world
It lived in the Late Cretaceous in what is now Alberta, Canada, with another find reported from Montana in the United States. Its bones come from the Oldman and Judith River formations, where it lived alongside the tyrannosaurs Gorgosaurus and Daspletosaurus and other plant eaters such as Corythosaurus and Euoplocephalus.
How it was found
Ryan named Albertaceratops in 2007. It is one of the oldest members of its branch of horned dinosaurs.
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations
Close relatives
Other members of Ceratopsidae
Sources: WikidataNamed in: M. J. Ryan. 2007. A new basal centrosaurine ceratopsid from the Oldman Formation, southeastern Alberta. Journal of Paleontology 81(2):376-396