Leptoceratops
Field photograph to come
Leptoceratops
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- Lived
- 72 to 66 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Length
- about 3 m (10 ft)
- Group
- Ceratopsians, Leptoceratopsidae
- Found in
- United States and Canada
- Named by
- Brown 1914
Field notes
About Leptoceratops
Leptoceratops was a plant-eating ceratopsian that lived in the Late Cretaceous, 72 to 66 million years ago. It belongs to the family Leptoceratopsidae.
The Paleobiology Database lists 7 finds of Leptoceratops, from Alberta, Montana and Wyoming. Its fossils come from rocks including the Hell Creek Formation, the Scollard Formation and the "Lance" Formation. It was named by Brown in 1914.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
70 million years ago
To scale
How big was Leptoceratops?
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Leptoceratopsidae.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: B. Brown. 1914. Leptoceratops, a new genus of Ceratopsia from the Edmonton Cretaceous of Alberta. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 33(36):567-580