Regaliceratops

Regaliceratops peterhewsi

Regaliceratops — reconstrução científica

Regaliceratops foi um ceratópsio herbívoro do Cretáceo, descrito por Caleb Brown & Donald Henderson. Viveu há aproximadamente 68 milhões de anos, na região do que hoje é Canadá. Medindo de 5.0 m, pesando 1.5 tons, era um representante característico da fauna mesozoica.

Regaliceratops (meaning "Royal horned face") is a monospecific genus of chasmosaurine ceratopsid dinosaur from Alberta, Canada that lived during the Late Cretaceous (middle Maastrichtian stage, 68.5 to 67.5 Ma) in what is now the St. Mary River Formation. The type and only species, Regaliceratops peterhewsi, is known only from an adult individual with a nearly complete skull lacking the lower jaw, which was nicknamed "Hellboy". Regaliceratops was named in 2015 by Caleb M. Brown and Donald M. Henderson. Regaliceratops has an estimated length of 5 metres (16 ft) and body mass of 2 metric tons (2.2 short tons). The skull of Regaliceratops displays features more similar to centrosaurines, which suggests convergent evolution in display morphology in ceratopsids.

Família
Ceratopsidae
Ordem
Ornithischia
Período
Cretaceous (68 Ma)
Dieta
Herbivore
Comprimento
5.0 m
Peso
1.5 tons

Fatos científicos

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