Coahuilaceratops

"Coahuila horned face"

Type species Coahuilaceratops magnacuerna

Lived: 72 to 66 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
Diet: Herbivore
Group: Ceratopsians, Ceratopsidae
Found in: Mexico
Named by: Loewen et al. 2010

Where its fossils were found

The evidence

Today

1 find

70 million years ago

Map: C. R. Scotese, PALEOMAP

Field notes

About Coahuilaceratops

What it was like

Coahuilaceratops was a horned dinosaur with very long horns over its eyes, among the longest of any horned dinosaur. It is known from part of a skull and skeleton.

Its world

It lived in the Late Cretaceous, around 72 million years ago, in what is now northern Mexico.

How it was found

Loewen and colleagues named Coahuilaceratops in 2010, from a single find. Its species name means "big horn".

Close relatives

Other members of Ceratopsidae

Sources: WikidataNamed in: M. A. Loewen, S. D. Sampson, and E. K. Lund, A. A. Farke, M. C. Aguillón-Martínez, C. A. de Leon, R. A. Rodríguez-de la Rosa, M. A. Getty, D. A. Eberth. 2010. Horned dinosaurs (Ornithischia: Ceratopsia) from the Upper Cretaceous (Campanian) Cerro del Pueblo Formation, Coahuila, Mexico. New Perspectives on Horned Dinosaurs: The Royal Tyrrell Museum Ceratopsian Symposium. Indiana University Press, Bloomington