Ceratopsian (horned dinosaur) skull
Geography: USA, Montana
Dimensions:length=178; width=117; height=132 cm
Taxonomy
- Attributes
- Objects
- Taxonomy
- Kingdom:
Animalia
- Phylum:
Chordata
- Class:
Reptilia
- Order:
Ornithischia
- Family:
Ceratopsidae
- Genus:
Triceratops
- SpecificEpithet:
horridus
Object number: 55380
Credit Line: Gift of the Louise Hawley Stone Charitable Trust
DescriptionThe largest of the horned dinosaurs, Triceratops lived at the same time as Tyrannosaurus rex. Its huge size and formidable horns would have given it some protection from attack by T. rex. Triceratops was the first horned dinosaur to be described, in 1888, and the last to live, right up to the end of the Age of Dinosaurs. Complete fossils skeletons of dinosaurs and extinct animals are very rare. This beautiful, almost complete sub-adult skull of this well-known dinosaur contains a remarkable amount of real, mineralized bone. The nose horn, rarely preserved, was sculpted by hand.
