Eotriceratops
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| Eotriceratops Fossil range: Late Cretaceous |
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E. xerinsularis Wu, Brinkman, Eberth & Braman, 2007 (type) |
Eotriceratops (meaning "dawn three-horn face") is a genus of ceratopsian dinosaur which lived during the late Cretaceous period. Its fossils have been found in the Horseshoe Canyon Formation. Its skull is said to have been around 3 metres long.[1] This would put its full size estimates to 12 meters.[2] The type species is E. xerinsularis, described in 2007 by Wu et al.[1]
[edit] References
- ^ a b Wu, X-C., Brinkman, D.B., Eberth, D.A., and Braman, D.R. (2007). "A new ceratopsid dinosaur (Ornithischia) from the uppermost Horseshoe Canyon Formation (upper Maastrichtian), Alberta, Canada." Canadian Journal of Earth Science, 44(9): 1243-1265.
- ^ White, R. and Reilly, T. (2007), "Dino's got head the size of car." The Sun, 8 November 2007. Accessed online 26 May 2008, http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article516666.ece
