Triceratops Gallery

Triceratops Gallery

A collection of fossils, stamps, and illustrations

About Triceratops

Scientific Name (Genus) Triceratops
Meaning of Name Three-horned face
tri (three) [Greek] - kerat (horn) [Greek] - ōps (face) [Greek]
Classification Ornithischia, Marginocephalia (Ceratopsia, Ceratopsidae, Chasmosaurinae)
Total Length Approx. 9m
Diet Herbivorous
Period Late Cretaceous
Sub-classification/Species Triceratops horridus
Triceratops prorsus
Year of Paper Publication 1889
Publication Notice of new American Dinosauria.
American Journal of Science. 37.
by Marsh, O.C. ,1889.
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