Utahceratops
Utahceratops is an extinct genus of ceratopsian dinosaur that lived approximately 76.4~75.5 million years ago during the Late Cretaceous period in what is now Utah. Utahceratops was a large-sized, robustly-built, ground-dwelling, quadrupedal herbivore, that could grow up to an estimated 4.5–5 m (15–16 ft) long.
| Utahceratops Temporal range: Late Cretaceous, | |
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| Reconstructed skeleton, Natural History Museum of Utah | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | †Ornithischia |
| Suborder: | †Ceratopsia |
| Family: | †Ceratopsidae |
| Subfamily: | †Chasmosaurinae |
| Genus: | †Utahceratops Sampson et al., 2010 |
| Species: | †U. gettyi |
| Binomial name | |
| †Utahceratops gettyi Sampson et al., 2010 | |
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