Regaliceratops
Field photograph to come
Regaliceratops
DV-0933 · type species Regaliceratops peterhewsi
- Lived
- 72 to 66 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Length
- about 5 m (16 ft)
- Group
- Ceratopsians, Ceratopsidae
- Found in
- Canada
- Named by
- Brown and Henderson 2015
Field notes
About Regaliceratops
Regaliceratops 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 Regaliceratops, from Alberta. Its fossils come from the St. Mary River Formation. It was named by Brown and Henderson in 2015.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
70 million years ago
To scale
How big was Regaliceratops?
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Ceratopsidae.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: C. M. Brown and D. M. Henderson. 2015. A new horned dinosaur reveals convergent evolution in cranial ornamentation in Ceratopsidae. Current Biology 25:1641-1648