Montanoceratops
Field photograph to come
Montanoceratops
DV-0174
- Lived
- 84 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
- Sternberg 1951
Field notes
About Montanoceratops
Montanoceratops was a plant-eating ceratopsian that lived in the Late Cretaceous, 84 to 66 million years ago. It belongs to the family Leptoceratopsidae.
The Paleobiology Database lists 3 finds of Montanoceratops, from Montana and Alberta. Its fossils come from rocks including the St. Mary River Formation and the Horseshoe Canyon Formation. It was named by Sternberg in 1951.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
75 million years ago
To scale
How big was Montanoceratops?
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Leptoceratopsidae.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: C. M. Sternberg. 1951. Complete skeleton of Leptoceratops gracilis Brown from the Upper Edmonton Member on Red Deer River, Alberta. National Museum of Canada Bulletin 123:225-255