Pentaceratops

museum Pentaceratops skull

Pentaceratops: Beast of the Week

Mexico United States Cretaceous Late Cretaceous Ceratopsia Pentaceratops

This week we will be checking out yet another awesome ceratopsian dinosaur.  Enter Pentaceratops sternbergii! Pentaceratops was a plant-eating dinosaur that measured about twenty feet long from beak to tail. As a ceratopsian (horns, beaks, and frills) it was member of the chasmosaurine group, and was closely related to Chasmosaurus and Coahuilaceratops to name a few.  It lived in what is now New Mexico, USA, during the late Cretaceous Period, between 76 and 73 million years ago.  The genus name,

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