Regaliceratops

What it was like

Regaliceratops was a horned dinosaur about 5 meters (16 feet) long, with a skull like no other of its family. Its frill was lined with big, flat, pentagon-shaped plates that stood around its head like a crown, which gave the genus its name.

Its horns were unusual too. The horns over its eyes were very short, and the horn on its nose was tall, a pattern seen in the other main branch of horned dinosaurs. It shows that similar head shapes appeared more than once.

Its world

It lived about 72 to 66 million years ago, in the Late Cretaceous, in what is now Alberta, Canada. Its skull comes from rocks in the south of the province, where it shared the land with Edmontosaurus, Pachyrhinosaurus and the horned Anchiceratops.

How it was found

Brown and Henderson named Regaliceratops in 2015, from a single, nearly complete skull.