Regaliceratops: Research Database Ceratopsidae (Ornithischia) · Late Cretaceous (~68 MYA) ·> North America — Canada (Alberta, Suncor Energy Mine) Research Note: Regaliceratops was a chasmosaurine ceratopsid from the Late Cretaceous of Alberta, Canada. Nicknamed “Hellboy,” it represents an unexpected evolutionary experiment in ceratopsid horn morphology, combining features of both chasmosaurines and centrosaurines. Research … Read more
In Depth Torosaurus was first named upon the description of two partial skulls by Othniel Charles Marsh all the way back in 1891, two years after he had named the much more famous Triceratops. The most common mistake regarding the name Torosaurus is the meaning, with many people misquoting it as meaning ‘bull lizard’ after … Read more
In Depth Agathaumas has been envisioned as a very large ceratopsian dinosaur, potentially as much as ten meters long, that lived in what is now the USA near the end of the Cretaceous period. However most palaeontologists agree that Agathaumas is a highly dubious genus of ceratopsian since it was based upon the description of … Read more