Eotriceratops
Field photograph to come
Eotriceratops
DV-0627 · type species Eotriceratops xerinsularis
- Lived
- 72 to 66 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Ceratopsians, Ceratopsidae
- Found in
- Canada
- Named by
- Wu et al. 2007
Field notes
About Eotriceratops
Eotriceratops was a plant-eating ceratopsian that lived in the Late Cretaceous, 72 to 66 million years ago. It belongs to the family Ceratopsidae.
The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Eotriceratops, from Alberta. Its fossils come from the Horseshoe Canyon Formation. It was named by Wu et al. in 2007.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
70 million years ago
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Ceratopsidae.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: X.-C. Wu, D. B. Brinkman, and D. A. Ebert, D. R. Braman. 2007. A new ceratopsid dinosaur (Ornithischia) from the uppermost Horseshoe Canyon Formation (upper Maastrichtian), Alberta, Canada. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 44:1243-1265