Terminocavus
Terminocavus was a horned dinosaur that lived in New Mexico about 75 million years ago. Its frill had a very narrow notch, unlike its relatives. It looked a bit like a smaller cousin of Triceratops.31
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Azalaki na mbangu boni?
Makambo ya kosepelisa
Only one partial skeleton of Terminocavus has been found, including a heart-shaped frill and parts of the skull.1
The name Terminocavus means 'last stop for the cavity' because the notch in its frill was almost closed.1
The fossil was discovered by Paul Sealey in 1997 in New Mexico.1
Terminocavus is closely related to Pentaceratops and Anchiceratops.1
The frill of Terminocavus was flat and plate-like, not made of narrow bars like earlier relatives.1
Scientists think Terminocavus might be a step in an evolutionary line where the frill notch slowly closed over millions of years.1

Mituna oyo batunaka mingi na ntina na Terminocavus
?How big was Terminocavus?
It was about the size of a smaller cousin of Triceratops. Its known remains are slightly smaller than those of Pentaceratops and Utahceratops, so it was a medium-sized ceratopsian.2
?What did Terminocavus eat?
It was a plant-eater, like other ceratopsian dinosaurs. It used its beak to clip leaves and stems.2
Mpo na bayebi ya badino
- Nkombo ya siansi
- Terminocavus
- Nkombo epesamaki na
- Fowler and Freedman Fowler 20203
- Lisanga
- Badino na maseke
- Libota / klade
- Ceratopsidae3
- Klasifikasio
- Ornithischia > Ceratopsia > Ceratopsidae3
- Mbula ya mabanga
- mbula milio 84 kino 72 (Campanian)3
- Milongo ya mabanga
- Kirtland3
- Bikolo
- Amerika3
- Bafosile oyo ekomami
- 1 na The Paleobiology Database3
- Ntango bamonaki yango
- Terminocavus was named in 2020 by scientists Fowler and Freedman Fowler. The only known fossil, a partial skull, was found by Paul Sealey in the Kirtland Formation of New Mexico in 1997.31
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- Scientists debate whether Terminocavus is a separate species or part of a slow, ongoing change from Pentaceratops to Anchiceratops.1
Esika makambo euti
- Transitional evolutionary forms in chasmosaurine ceratopsid dinosaurs: evidence from the Campanian of New Mexico (pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
- Terminocavus (en.wikipedia.org)
- Terminocavus in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): mbula, bisika, milongo ya mabanga, klasifikasio.
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