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Triceratops
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 ("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 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.

Triceratops is the official state dinosaur of Wyoming.^[1]

References

1. ↑ http://wyoming.gov/general.aspx