Eotriceratops

Field photograph to come

DV-0627Horseshoe Canyon Fm., Alberta

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

1 find

70 million years ago

Map: C. R. Scotese, PALEOMAP

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