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horned dinosaur
Montanoceratops
Say it like this: “mon-TAN-o-SER-a-tops”
Montanoceratops cerorhynchus
Montanoceratops 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 · Maastrichtian) · roughly 83.6 to 66 million years ago
- Named in
- 1951 · Sternberg, C. M.
- Hip height
- 0.8 m · 3 ft
- Length
- 2.5 m · 8 ft
- Weight
- 170 kg · 375 lb
- Found in
- the United States · St. Mary River
- Food and walking
- Herbivore · Four legs
- Kind
- horned dinosaur · Ceratopsian
- Family branch
- Leptoceratopsidae
The story in short
Montanoceratops was formally named in 1951 by C. M. Sternberg. The name means “montana horned face.”
It lived in the Late Cretaceous (Campanian · Maastrichtian), roughly 83.6 to 66 million years ago. Finds come from the United States, including the St. Mary River Formation. It was a herbivore and walked on four legs.
Published estimates put Montanoceratops at a length near 2.5 m, hips about 0.8 m high, and a body mass around 170 kg.
On the family tree it sits in Leptoceratopsidae, among the horned dinosaurs.