Pentaceratops
Field photograph to come
Pentaceratops
DV-0115
- Lived
- 84 to 66 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Length
- about 6.8 m (22 ft)
- Group
- Ceratopsians, Ceratopsidae
- Found in
- United States
- Named by
- Osborn 1923
Field notes
About Pentaceratops
Pentaceratops was a plant-eating ceratopsian that lived in the Late Cretaceous, 84 to 66 million years ago. It belongs to the family Ceratopsidae.
The Paleobiology Database lists 8 finds of Pentaceratops, from New Mexico and Colorado. Its fossils come from rocks including the Kirtland Formation, the Fruitland Formation and the Williams Fork Formation. It was named by Osborn in 1923.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
75 million years ago
To scale
How big was Pentaceratops?
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Ceratopsidae.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: H. F. Osborn. 1923. A new genus and species of Ceratopsia from New Mexico, Pentaceratops sternbergii. American Museum Novitates 93:1-3