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horned dinosaur
Anchiceratops
Say it like this: “ANG-kee-SERR-uh-tops”
Anchiceratops ornatus
Anchiceratops ate plants and walked on four legs. It lived in the Late Cretaceous. Bones have been found in Canada.
- When
- Late Cretaceous (Campanian · Maastrichtian) · roughly 83.6 to 66 million years ago
- Named in
- 1914 · Brown, B.
- Hip height
- 1.8 m · 6 ft
- Length
- 4.3 m · 14 ft
- Weight
- 1 tonnes
- Found in
- Canada · Horseshoe Canyon
- Food and walking
- Herbivore · Four legs
- Kind
- horned dinosaur · Ceratopsian
- Family branch
- Chasmosaurinae
The story in short
The genus Anchiceratops dates to 1914, the year B. Brown described it. The name means “horned face.”
Fossils referred to Anchiceratops date to the Late Cretaceous (Campanian · Maastrichtian), roughly 83.6 to 66 million years ago. Finds come from Canada, including the Horseshoe Canyon Formation. It was a herbivore and walked on four legs.
Published estimates put Anchiceratops at a length near 4.3 m, hips about 1.8 m high, and a body mass around 1 tonnes.
On the family tree it sits in Chasmosaurinae, among the horned dinosaurs.
Close relatives
Agujaceratops
Agujaceratops mariscalensis
Late Cretaceous (Campanian) · roughly 83.6 to 72.2 million years ago
Arrhinoceratops
Arrhinoceratops brachyops
Late Cretaceous (Campanian · Maastrichtian) · roughly 83.6 to 66 million years ago
Bisticeratops
Bisticeratops froeseorum
Late Cretaceous (Campanian) · roughly 83.6 to 72.2 million years ago