Unescoceratops
Unescoceratops was a small, plant-eating dinosaur that lived about 75 million years ago in what is now Canada. It had a parrot-like beak and a short frill on its head, but no big horns like its famous cousin Triceratops. This dinosaur was named after a UNESCO World Heritage Site where its fossil was found.12
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Its lower jaw had a hatchet-like shape with a bony projection that looked like a small chin.2
The only fossil found so far is a partial left lower jaw bone, collected in 1995.1
Unescoceratops lived on the island continent of Laramidia during the Late Cretaceous.1
This dinosaur was one of the most advanced members of the leptoceratopsid family.1
Most asked questions about Unescoceratops
?How big was Unescoceratops?
It was about 1 to 2 metres long and weighed less than 91 kilograms.1
?What did Unescoceratops eat?
It was a plant eater (herbivore) that probably fed on low growing plants no taller than 1 metre high.1
?When did Unescoceratops live?
It lived about 76.5 to 75 million years ago, during the Late Cretaceous period.1
?Is Unescoceratops a dinosaur?
Yes, it is a small horned dinosaur (a ceratopsian) from the leptoceratopsid family.1
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- Scientific name
- Unescoceratops
- Named by
- Ryan et al. 20123
- Group
- Horned dinos
- Family / clade
- Leptoceratopsidae3
- Classification
- Ornithischia > Ceratopsia3
- Age of the rocks
- 84 to 72 million years (Campanian)3
- Rock formations
- Dinosaur Park3
- Countries
- Canada3
- Fossil records
- 1 in the Paleobiology Database3
- Discovery
- The fossil was found in 1995 in Dinosaur Provincial Park, Alberta, by Philip Currie. It was first thought to be a Leptoceratops, but in 2012 scientists Michael Ryan and David Evans named it a new genus and species.12
- Still debated
- Scientists are not sure exactly how big Unescoceratops was, because only a jaw bone has been found. They estimate it was between 1 and 2 meters long.12
Where the facts come from
- Unescoceratops (en.wikipedia.org)
- Scientists Name Two New Species of Horned Dinosaur | Royal Ontario Museum (rom.on.ca)
- Unescoceratops in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): age, places, rock formations, classification.
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