Triceratops on the go
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Thursday, September 7, 2006
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Netherlands
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Return to its original habitat -- currently named Colorado, Montana, South Dakota, Wyoming (USA) and later to Saskatchewan and Alberta (Canada)
Triceratops meaning 'three-horned face' was a ceratopsid herbivorous dinosaur genus, from the Late Cretaceous Period (from around 70-65 million years ago) of what is now North America. It shared its landscape with the fearsome Tyrannosaurus, the armored dinosaur Ankylosaurus and the uncommon Torosaurus.
Although no complete skeleton has been found, it has been estimated that Triceratops was about 9 m (30 ft) long, 3.0 m (10 ft) tall, and weighed around 5,400 kg (12,000 lb).
Triceratops was discovered by John Bell Hatcher, in 1888. Its declaration as a legitimate dinosaur came when an intact skull was found. It was named by Othniel Charles Marsh in 1889 (some time earlier, however, in 1887 near Denver, Colorado, USA, he had misidentified the Triceratops as a type of bison, giving it the name Bison alticornis). The sturdy nature of the animal's skull has ensured that many examples have been preserved as fossils, allowing variations between species and individuals to be studied. Triceratops remains have subsequently been found in Montana, South Dakota, and Wyoming, in the USA and in Saskatchewan and Alberta, in Canada.
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