Outline: a typical ceratopsian
Utahceratops
"Utah horned face"
- Lived
- 84 to 72 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Ceratopsians, Ceratopsidae
- Found in
- United States
- Named by
- Sampson et al. 2010
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
80 million years ago
Field notes
About Utahceratops
What it was like
Utahceratops was a large horned plant eater. It had a big horn on its nose, short brow horns that pointed out to the sides and a broad frill. It cut plants with a sharp beak and sliced them with rows of teeth.
Its world
It lived in the Late Cretaceous in what is now Utah. Its bones come from the Kaiparowits Formation, a land of rivers and swamps shared with the horned Kosmoceratops, the tyrannosaur Teratophoneus and the duckbills Gryposaurus and Parasaurolophus.
How it was found
Sampson and colleagues named Utahceratops in 2010, along with Kosmoceratops. There are 8 recorded finds.
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations
Close relatives
Other members of Ceratopsidae
Sources: WikidataNamed in: S. D. Sampson, M. A. Loewen, and A. A. Farke, E. M. Roberts, C. A. Forster, J. A. Smith, A. L. Titus. 2010. New horned dinosaurs from Utah provide evidence for intracontinental dinosaur endemism. PLoS One 5(9):e12292:1-12