Anchiceratops
Field photograph to come
Anchiceratops
DV-0090 · type species Anchiceratops ornatus
- Lived
- 84 to 66 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Length
- estimates range from 4.3 to 6 m (14 to 20 ft)
- Group
- Ceratopsians, Ceratopsidae
- Found in
- Canada
- Named by
- Brown 1914
Field notes
About Anchiceratops
Anchiceratops was a plant-eating ceratopsian that lived in the Late Cretaceous, 84 to 66 million years ago. It belongs to the family Ceratopsidae.
The Paleobiology Database lists 6 finds of Anchiceratops, from Alberta. Its fossils come from rocks including the Horseshoe Canyon Formation and the St. Mary River Formation. It was named by Brown in 1914.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
75 million years ago
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Ceratopsidae.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: B. Brown. 1914. Anchiceratops, a new genus of horned dinosaurs from the Edmonton Cretaceous of Alberta. With discussion of the origin of the ceratopsian crest and the brain casts of Anchiceratops and Trachodon. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 33(33):539-548