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Zuniceratops - Dinosaur ABC's #1 Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 1/13/2014
Difficulty:
2.5 out of 5
Terrain:
3.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:

This is a good sized container along one of my favorite hiking trails, rich with geocaches. I am nuts about dinosaurs and thought it would be a great idea to hide a specific dinosaur themed cache for every letter of the alphabet. My main focus is the lesser known dinosaurs with interesting features!

*CONGRATS TO Robespierre50 FOR FIRST TO FIND*

Name: Zuniceratops (ZOO-nee-SER-ah-tops)

Meaning: Zuni horned face, as in the Zuni Native American tribe

Type: Ceratopsian

Time Period: Late Cretaceous, 90 Million Years Ago

Diet: Plants

Size: About 10ft (3M) long, 3ft (1M) tall, weighed 200lbs (100-150K)

Lived in: Western North America

Discovered: in New Mexico, 1996

Fossils: One skull and other various bones

Cool facts: Zuniceratops was discovered by an 8-year-old boy, Christopher Wolfe. This small horned dinosaur lived before the larger well-know ceratopsian dinosaurs, such as Triceratops, and is thought to be an evolutionary link between the earlier hornless and smaller ceratopsians, like Protoceratops and the larger and large horned ceratopsians.

 

Image Credit: http://www.search4dinosaurs.com/zuniceratops.html

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Jung'f n qvabfnhe'f snibevgr glcr bs zhfvp? EBPX!

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)