Arrhinoceratops
Arrhinoceratops brachyops
Arrhinoceratops (meaning "no nose-horn face", derived from the Ancient Greek "a-/α-" "no", rhis/ῥίς "nose" "keras/κέρας" "horn", "-ops/ὤψ" "face") is a genus of herbivorous ceratopsian dinosaur. The name was coined as its original describer concluded it was special because the nose-horn was not a separate bone, however further analysis revealed this was based on a misunderstanding. It lived during the latest Campanian/earliest Maastrichtian stage of the Late Cretaceous, predating its famous relative Triceratops by a few million years, although it was contemporary with Anchiceratops. Its remains have been found in Canada.
- Family
- Ceratopsidae
- Order
- Ornithischia
- Period
- Cretaceous (70.0–67.0 Ma)
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Length
- 5.0–6.0 m
- Weight
- 2.0–3.0 t
- Type locality
- Horseshoe Canyon Formation, Alberta, Canada
- Holotype
- ROM 796
- PBDB
- txn:38853