| Utahceratops Temporal range: Late Cretaceous, 76.4–75.5 Ma |
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| Selected craniofacial elements of Utahceratops gettyi | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Superorder: | Dinosauria |
| Order: | †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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Utahceratops (meaning "Utah horn face") is a genus of herbivorous ceratopsian dinosaur. It is a chasmosaurine ceratopsian which lived during the Late Cretaceous period (late Campanian) in what is now Utah. Its fossils have been recovered from the Kaiparowits Formation.[1] It was first named by Scott D. Sampson, Mark A. Loewen, Andrew A. Farke, Eric M. Roberts, Catherine A. Forster, Joshua A. Smith and Alan L. Titus in 2010, and the type species is Utahceratops gettyi.[1] They are estimated to have measured on average 2 metres (6.5 feet) in height, 6 to 7 metres (20 to 23 feet) in length, and between three and four metric tons in weight.[2]