Furcatoceratops
Furcatoceratops was a horned dinosaur that lived in what is now Montana, USA, about 75 million years ago. It had a big frill on its head and two forward-curving horns above its eyes. This plant-eater was about the size of a small car.12
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Datos curiosos
Furcatoceratops was named in 2023, making it one of the newest horned dinosaurs discovered.1
The only known skeleton is of a subadult, meaning it was not fully grown when it died.2
Furcatoceratops lived alongside other dinosaurs like the horned Avaceratops, the duck-billed Brachylophosaurus, and the tyrannosaur Daspletosaurus.1

As preguntas máis frecuentes sobre Furcatoceratops
?How big was Furcatoceratops?
Furcatoceratops was about 3.6 metres (12 feet) long, about the size of a small car. It was a moderately-sized subadult, so it may have grown a bit larger.31
?What did Furcatoceratops eat?
Furcatoceratops was a plant-eater. It lived in a warm, coastal plain and ate plants.1
?When did Furcatoceratops live?
Furcatoceratops lived about 75 million years ago, during the Late Cretaceous period. Its fossils were found in rocks about 75.6 million years old.12
?Was Furcatoceratops a dinosaur?
Yes, Furcatoceratops was a dinosaur. It was a type of horned dinosaur called a ceratopsian, specifically a centrosaurine.1
Para expertos en dinos
- Nome científico
- Furcatoceratops
- Bautizado por
- Ishikawa et al. 20234
- Grupo
- Dinos con cornos
- Familia / clado
- Ceratopsidae4
- Clasificación
- Ornithischia > Ceratopsia > Ceratopsidae4
- Idade das rochas
- de 84 a 72 millóns de anos (Campanian)4
- Formacións rochosas
- Judith River4
- Países
- EUA4
- Rexistros fósiles
- 1 na Paleobiology Database4
- Descubrimento
- Furcatoceratops was named by Hiroki Ishikawa and colleagues in 2023 based on a nearly complete skeleton found at a quarry in Montana, USA. The skeleton was dug up by Triebold Paleontology Incorporated and is now kept at the National Museum of Nature and Science in Japan.12
- Aínda en debate
- Scientists are not sure exactly how big a fully grown Furcatoceratops was, because the only known fossil is from a subadult.2
De onde veñen os datos
- Furcatoceratops (en.wikipedia.org)
- Furcatoceratops elucidans , a new centrosaurine (Ornithischia: Ceratopsidae) from the upper Campanian Judith River Formation, Montana, USA (sciencedirect.com)
- Furcatoceratops elucidans — skeletal reconstruction · NSM PV 24660 | Skeletal Drawing (skeletaldrawing.com)
- Furcatoceratops in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): idade, lugares, formacións rochosas, clasificación.
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