Lokiceratops

What it was like

Lokiceratops was a horned plant eater that walked on four legs. It had no nose horn, but its frill carried a pair of huge, curved blades, and the two sides of the frill were not quite the same.

Like its relatives, it probably used its headgear for display, to tell its own kind apart and to impress rivals.

Its world

It lived about 84 to 72 million years ago, in the Late Cretaceous, in what is now Montana. Its fossils come from the Judith River Formation, where several other horned dinosaurs lived at nearly the same time, a sign of how many kinds there were.

Its neighbors included Centrosaurus, the duck-bill Corythosaurus and the tyrannosaurs Gorgosaurus and Daspletosaurus.

How it was found

Loewen and colleagues named Lokiceratops in 2024. The type species is Lokiceratops rangiformis. It is known from one find that includes most of the skull.