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Dinosaur: Anchiceratops ornatus
| Length*: | 5.4 m | 17.7 ft |
| Weight*: | 1.7 t | 3,748 lb |
*The largest known specimen
Period
Epoch: Late Cretaceous
Stage: Early Maastrichtian
Years: 72.1–66 Ma
Details
Status: valid
Author: Brown
Year: 1914
Distribution
Area: North America
Country: Canada, USA
Region: Alberta, Montana
Formation: Horseshoe Canyon, St. Mary River
Locations
Sources
Material: Many skeletons from Bonebeds.
References: Mallon, J.C., Holmes, R., Eberth, D.A., Ryan, M.J. & Anderson, J.S. (2011) "Variation in the skull of Anchiceratops (Dinosauria, Ceratopsidae) from the Horseshoe Canyon Formation (Upper Cretaceous) of Alberta".
Brown, B. (1914). Anchiceratops, a new genus of horned dinosaurs from the Edmonton Cretaceous of Alberta. With a discussion of the origin of the ceratopsian crest and the brain casts of Anchiceratops and Trachodon.
