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Leptoceratops
Say it like this: “LEP-to-SER-a-tops”
Leptoceratops gracilis
Leptoceratops ate plants and walked on four legs. It lived in the Late Cretaceous. Bones have been found in Canada.
- When
- Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) · roughly 72.2 to 66 million years ago
- Named in
- 1914 · Brown, B.
- Hip height
- 0.8 m · 3 ft
- Length
- 2 m · 7 ft
- Weight
- 100 kg · 220 lb
- Found in
- Canada · Scollard
- Food and walking
- Herbivore · Four legs
- Kind
- horned dinosaur · Ceratopsian
- Family branch
- Leptoceratopsidae
The story in short
The genus Leptoceratops dates to 1914, the year B. Brown described it. The name means “small horn face.”
It lived in the Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian), roughly 72.2 to 66 million years ago. Finds come from Canada, including the Scollard Formation. It was a herbivore and walked on four legs.
Published estimates put Leptoceratops at a length near 2 m, hips about 0.8 m high, and a body mass around 100 kg.
On the family tree it sits in Leptoceratopsidae, among the horned dinosaurs.