Nasutoceratops

DV-0865 · type species Nasutoceratops titusi

Lived: 84 to 72 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
Diet: Herbivore
Length: about 4.5 m (15 ft)
Group: Ceratopsians, Ceratopsidae
Found in: United States
Named by: Sampson et al. 2013

Field notes

About Nasutoceratops

Nasutoceratops 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 1 find of Nasutoceratops, from Utah. Its fossils come from the Kaiparowits Formation. It was named by Sampson et al. in 2013.

The evidence

Where its fossils were found

Today

1 find

80 million years ago

Map: C. R. Scotese, PALEOMAP

To scale

How big was Nasutoceratops?

Nasutoceratops: about 4.5 m (15 ft) · Person: 1.8 m (6 ft)Silhouette: typical ceratopsian shape

Lived alongside

Found in the same rock formations.

Close relatives

Other members of Ceratopsidae.

Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: S. D. Sampson, E. K. Lund, and M. A. Loewen, A. A. Farke, K. E. Clayton. 2013. A remarkable short-snouted horned dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous (late Campanian) of southern Laramidia. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 280:20131186