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horned dinosaur
Machairoceratops
Say it like this: “mah-KY-ro-SEH-ruh-tops”
Machairoceratops cronusi
Machairoceratops ate plants and walked on four legs. It lived in the Late Cretaceous. Bones have been found in the United States.
- When
- Late Cretaceous (Campanian) · roughly 83.6 to 72.2 million years ago
- Named in
- 2016 · Lund, E. K.; O'Connor, P. M.; Loewen, M. A.; Jinnah, Z. A.
- Hip height
- Not established
- Length
- Not established
- Weight
- Not established
- Found in
- the United States · Wahweap
- Food and walking
- Herbivore · Four legs
- Kind
- horned dinosaur · Ceratopsian
- Family branch
- Centrosaurinae
The story in short
The genus Machairoceratops dates to 2016, the year E. K. Lund and colleagues described it. The name means “bent sword horned face.”
It lived in the Late Cretaceous (Campanian), roughly 83.6 to 72.2 million years ago. Finds come from the United States, including the Wahweap Formation. It was a herbivore and walked on four legs.
The fossils of Machairoceratops are too incomplete for a responsible length, hip height, or weight, so those fields are left blank on purpose.
On the family tree it sits in Centrosaurinae, among the horned dinosaurs.
Close relatives
Achelousaurus
Achelousaurus horneri
Late Cretaceous (Campanian) · roughly 83.6 to 72.2 million years ago
Albertaceratops
Albertaceratops nesmoi
Late Cretaceous (Campanian) · roughly 83.6 to 72.2 million years ago
Avaceratops
Avaceratops lammersi
Late Cretaceous (Campanian) · roughly 83.6 to 72.2 million years ago