Triceratops
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Triceratops ("three-horned face") was a large North American ceratopsian (horned) dinosaur. It had a large bony frill protecting its neck and three horns - one over each eye and a smaller one on its beaked snout.
| Triceratops (extinct) | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom Information | |
| Kingdom | Animalia |
| Phylum Information | |
| Phylum | Chordata |
| Class Information | |
| Class | Sauropsida |
| Sub-class | Diapsida |
| Infra-class | Archosauromorpha |
| Order Information | |
| Superorder | Dinosauria |
| Order | Ornithischia |
| Sub-order | Cerapoda |
| Infraorder | Ceratopsia |
| Family Information | |
| Family | Ceratopsidae |
| Sub-family | Ceratopsinae |
| Genus Information | |
| Genus | Triceratops |
| Species Information | |
| Species | T. horridus; T. prorsus |
| Population statistics | |
Triceratops was herbivorous, up to 26 feet long, and could weigh up to 6 tons. The skull of Triceratops, which is approximately a third of the entire animal's length, is among the largest known for all land animals.
Several species of Triceratops are known, from a large number of fossil remains. In the evolutionary paradigm, they were among the last of the dinosaurs, living in the late Cretaceous period.