Outline: a typical ceratopsian
Diabloceratops
dy-AB-loh-SER-uh-tops
"devil horned face"
- Lived
- 84 to 72 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Ceratopsians, Ceratopsidae
- Found in
- United States
- Named by
- Kirkland and Deblieux 2010
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
80 million years ago
Field notes
About Diabloceratops
What it was like
Diabloceratops was a horned plant eater that walked on four legs. Its frill carried a pair of long spikes that curved up and out like horns, which inspired its name. It had a short nose horn and a parrot-like beak for cropping tough plants.
Its world
It lived about 84 to 72 million years ago, in the Late Cretaceous, in what is now Utah. Its fossils come from the Wahweap Formation, where it lived with the tyrannosaur Lythronax and the horned Machairoceratops. It is one of the earliest horned dinosaurs of its family.
How it was found
Kirkland and Deblieux named Diabloceratops in 2010, from a single skull.
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations
Close relatives
Other members of Ceratopsidae
Sources: WikidataNamed in: J. I. Kirkland and D. D. Deblieux. 2010. New basal centrosaurine ceratopsian skulls from the Wahweap Formation (middle Campanian), Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, southern Utah. New Perspectives on Horned Dinosaurs: The Royal Tyrrell Museum Ceratopsian Symposium. Indiana University Press, Bloomington