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Prenoceratops

Say it: pree-no-SEH-rah-tops

Name means: “bent or prone horned face”1

Ate: PlantsHorned dinosLate Cretaceous

Prenoceratops was a small, plant-eating dinosaur that lived about 74 million years ago. It had a parrot-like beak and a low, sloping head. Its fossils were found in a bonebed with many other individuals.1

Lived

84 to 72 million years ago3

Late Cretaceous

Fossils found in

Montana, USA and Alberta, Canada1 3

Food

Plants1

Length

1.3 to 2.75 m1 2

estimates vary

Weight

20 kg1

When did it live?

Triassic

Jurassic

Cretaceous

252 million years ago20114566, the asteroid

How big was it?

How long was it?

How heavy was it?

as heavy as 5 house cats

as long as 3 dogs nose to tailas long as 15 bananas end to endas heavy as 4 watermelons

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Fun facts

Prenoceratops is the only early horned dinosaur known from a bonebed, where many skeletons were found together.1

It lived a few million years before its close relative Leptoceratops.1

A single fossil from Alberta was found near a nesting site of the duck-billed dinosaur Hypacrosaurus.1

The name Prenoceratops comes from Greek words meaning bent forward, horn and face.1

Its fossils were first discovered on a Blackfeet reservation in Montana.1

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Scientific name: Prenoceratops
Named by: Chinnery 20043
Group: Horned dinos
Family / clade: Leptoceratopsidae3
Classification: Ornithischia > Ceratopsia3
Age of the rocks: 84 to 72 million years (Campanian)3
Rock formations: Two Medicine, Oldman3
Countries: USA, Canada3
Fossil records: 2 in the Paleobiology Database3
Discovery: Prenoceratops was first discovered on a Blackfeet reservation in Pondera County, Montana. It was named by Brenda J. Chinnery in 2004.1
Still debated: Scientists are not sure exactly how big Prenoceratops was, with estimates ranging from 1.3 to 2.75 metres long.1 2

Where the facts come from

Prenoceratops (en.wikipedia.org)
PaleoCodex :: Prenoceratops (paleocodex.com)
Prenoceratops in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): age, places, rock formations, classification.

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