Platyceratops

Name: Platyceratops

Pronounced: Plat-e-seh-rah-tops

Meaning: Flat horned face

Type: Ceratopsian

Length: 1 meters long

Diet: Herbivore

Period: Late Cretaceous

Years: 72-71 million years ago

Location: Mongolia

Description: Platyceratops is a genus of ceratopsid dinosaur that lived during the Late Cretaceous period in what is now North America. It was a small herbivore, with a skull measuring about 60 cm (2 ft) in length and a body length of about 3.5 m (11 ft). The skull was adorned with a number of distinctive features, including a pair of large, forward-facing nasal horns, a pair of small, triangular eye horns, and a prominent frill extending from the back of the skull. Platyceratops is thought to have used its horns and frill for display and possibly for defense against predators. Its diet likely consisted of plants, and it may have used its beak-like jaws to snip off pieces of foliage. Platyceratops is known from a single partial skeleton, which was discovered in the Judith River Formation of Montana.

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