Very HardPentaceratops
Pentaceratops sternbergii
PEN-tah-SERR-a-tops· “five-horned face”
🦕 Dinosaur🕰️ Cretaceous🌿 herbivore🦴 Ceratopsidae
6.5 m
Length
2.5 m
Height
4 t
Weight
A large horned dinosaur with one of the biggest skulls of any land animal — a huge frill plus a nose horn and two long brow horns. Its name means 'five-horned face', counting the extra spikes on its cheeks.
When
Late Cretaceous, ~76–73 million years ago
Found in
United States
Discovered
Charles Sternberg, 1923
Did you know?
- Had one of the largest skulls of any land animal, frill included.
- Its name counts two extra hornlets on the cheeks as 'horns'.
- Roamed the Late Cretaceous of what is now New Mexico.
Artwork: Conty, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.