Avaceratops
Field photograph to come
Avaceratops
DV-0310 · type species Avaceratops lammersi
- Lived
- 84 to 72 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Length
- about 2.3 m (8 ft)
- Group
- Ceratopsians, Ceratopsidae
- Found in
- United States and Canada
- Named by
- Dodson 1986
Field notes
About Avaceratops
Avaceratops was a plant-eating ceratopsian that lived in the Late Cretaceous, 84 to 72 million years ago. It belongs to the family Ceratopsidae.
The Paleobiology Database lists 3 finds of Avaceratops, from Montana and Alberta. Its fossils come from rocks including the Judith River Formation and the Oldman Formation. It was named by Dodson in 1986.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
80 million years ago
To scale
How big was Avaceratops?
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Ceratopsidae.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: P. Dodson. 1986. Avaceratops lammersi: a new ceratopsid from the Judith River Formation of Montana. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 138(2):305-317