Kosmoceratops

Kosmoceratops richardsoni · Kosmoceratops was a horned ceratopsid dinosaur that lived in what is now Utah, North America, about 76 million years ago during the Late Cretaceous.

It lived about 76 to 75.9 million years ago.

Kosmoceratops
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Kosmoceratops
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Kosmoceratops
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Taxonomy

KingdomAnimalia
PhylumChordata
ClassReptilia
OrderOrnithischia
FamilyCeratopsidae
GenusKosmoceratops
SpeciesKosmoceratops richardsoni

Where its fossils were found

Southern Utah, USA (Grand Staircase–Escalante National Monument).

Fun facts

  • Kosmoceratops had fifteen well-developed horns and horn-like structures, giving it the most ornate skull of any known dinosaur.
  • Its horns above the eyes pointed upward and to the sides, a bit like the horns of a modern bison.
  • Bone studies suggest Kosmoceratops grew rapidly and was warm-blooded, like modern birds and mammals.
  • Kosmoceratops had long rows of teeth forming slicing batteries of hundreds of teeth behind a toothless beak.

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Facts and taxonomy adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).