A Guide to the Dinosaurs of Colorado


On Dinosaur Classification

On Scientific Names

The Basics of Taxonomy

An Introduction to Cladistcs

Taxonomy of the Dinosaurs of Colorado

Cladogram of the Dinosaurs of Colorado

About the Dinosaurs of Colorado

Geological
Time Chart


   

Genus Triceratops

Taxonomy: Recognized Species
Class Dinosauria
  Subclass Ornithischia
    Order Marginocephalia
      Family Ceratopsidae
T. horridus Marsh, 1889
  Western North America

Species in Colorado: Triceratops horridus

Size: Where found:
30 feet
9 meters
Various formations across Western North America

Period: Age:
Late Cretaceous Late Maastrichtian
  65 - 68 Ma.

Material Found
50 complete or partial skulls, some partial skeletons.


Information compiled by Donald L. Blanchard


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