Pentaceratops
by Walter Colvin
Title
Pentaceratops
Artist
Walter Colvin
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Digital Art - Digital Fine Art Render
Description
Pentaceratops is a genus of ceratopsid dinosaur from the late Cretaceous Period of what is now North America. The appearance of Pentaceratops sternbergii in the fossil record marks the end of the Judithian land vertebrate age and the start of the Kirtlandian. Its name means "five-horned face", and in reference to its two long epijugal bones, spikes which protrude out sidewards from under its eyes, in addition to the three more obvious horns.
Pentaceratops lived around 75-73 million years ago, its remains having been mostly found in the Kirtland Formation in the San Juan Basin in New Mexico. Other dinosaurs which shared its time period include Parasaurolophus cyrtocristatus, the pachycephalosaur Sphaerotholus, the armored dinosaur Nodocephalosaurus and the tyrannosauroid Bistahieversor.
It was about 8 m (27 ft) long, and has been estimated to have weighed around 5,500 kg (13,000 lb).
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August 11th, 2012
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