Chasmosaurus facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Chasmosaurus Temporal range: late Cretaceous

Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Sauropsida
Order:	Ornithischia
Suborder:	Neornithischia
Infraorder:	Ceratopsia
Family:	Ceratopsidae
Subfamily:	Chasmosaurinae
Genus:	Chasmosaurus Lambe, 1914
Species
C. belli C. canadensis C. mariscalensis

Chasmosaurus was a rhinoceros-like dinosaur, the order of bird-hipped, herbivorous dinosaurs. It was a member of the suborder Marginocephalia, and the family of large, horned, herding herbivores, the ceratopsians. Chasmosaurus was named by paleontologist Lawrence Lambe in 1914.

Chasmosaurus lived 65 to 100 million years ago and was 5 to 6 metres long with a weight of 3.6 tonnes.

They lived in western North America from Alaska to Mexico.

Images for kids

George F. Sternberg preparing a C. belli skull in 1914
C. russelli, Royal Tyrrell Museum
Holotype of C. kaiseni, which has also been considered a specimen of Mojoceratops, which itself is probably a synonym of C. russelli
Restoration of C. belli
Stratigraphic positions of chasmosaurine specimens from the Dinosaur Park Formation
Depiction of the mega-herbivores in the Dinosaur Park Formation, C. belli on the left
Juvenile UALVP 52613