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Dinosaur: Triceratops
Triceratops deconstructed. Photograph: Getty Images
Triceratops deconstructed. Photograph: Getty Images

Dinosaur directory: Triceratops

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How to say it tri-serra-tops

Meaning "three-horned face"

Named by Marsh (1889)

Where found United States

Length up to 9m

Height 3m

Weight 5.5 tonnes

How it moved on four legs

Teeth horny beak with shearing teeth

Type of feeder herbivorous

Food tough palm fronds

When it lived 67-65m years ago (Late Cretaceous)

Dinosaur order ornithischian (bird-hipped)

Other info one of the last dinosaurs to evolve. Had a bony frill, armour plating on its back, and horns to charge an attacker.

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