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Prenoceratops
Say it like this: “PREE-no-SEH-ruh-tops”
Prenoceratops pieganensis
Prenoceratops 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
- 2004 · Chinnery, B.
- Hip height
- Not established
- Length
- 1.3 m · 4 ft
- Weight
- 20 kg · 44 lb
- Found in
- the United States · Two Medicine
- Food and walking
- Herbivore · Four legs
- Kind
- horned dinosaur · Ceratopsian
- Family branch
- Leptoceratopsidae
The story in short
Prenoceratops was formally named in 2004 by B. Chinnery. The name means “bent or prone-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 Two Medicine Formation. It was a herbivore and walked on four legs.
Published estimates put Prenoceratops at a length near 1.3 m and a body mass around 20 kg.
On the family tree it sits in Leptoceratopsidae, among the horned dinosaurs.