Outline: a typical ceratopsian
Nasutoceratops
nah-SOO-toh-SER-ah-tops
"big-nosed horned face"
Type species Nasutoceratops titusi
- Lived
- 84 to 72 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Length
- about 4.5 m (15 ft)
- Group
- Ceratopsians, Ceratopsidae
- Found in
- United States
- Named by
- Sampson et al. 2013
Size comparison
To scale
Scale in metersOutline: typical ceratopsian shape
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
80 million years ago
Field notes
About Nasutoceratops
What it was like
Nasutoceratops was a horned dinosaur about 4.5 meters (15 feet) long, with a very large nose and long, curving horns over its eyes that swept forward, a little like those of a bull.
Its frill was plain, without the spikes of many of its relatives.
Its world
It lived in the Late Cretaceous in what is now Utah, in the United States. Its bones come from the Kaiparowits Formation, where it shared the land with the horned Kosmoceratops and Utahceratops, the crested Parasaurolophus and the tyrannosaur Teratophoneus.
How it was found
Sampson and colleagues named Nasutoceratops in 2013, from a single find with a nearly complete skull. Skin impressions found with it show small, rounded scales.
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations
Close relatives
Other members of Ceratopsidae
Sources: WikidataNamed in: S. D. Sampson, E. K. Lund, and M. A. Loewen, A. A. Farke, K. E. Clayton. 2013. A remarkable short-snouted horned dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous (late Campanian) of southern Laramidia. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 280:20131186