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Leptoceratops
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous, 66.8–66Ma
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Fossils at the Canadian Museum of Nature, Ottawa
Scientific classification
Genus:
Leptoceratops
Species:
gracilis

Leptoceratops (meaning "slender horned face") was a stocky ceratopsian dinosaur that had a large skull are there was a horn on its beaked snout. It is known from five skulls and some skeletal material. Leptoceratops are during in the Upper Cretaceous, about 68–65 million years ago. Fossils have been found in Alberta, Canada, and Wyoming, in North America.

Leptoceratops gracilis skeletal
Skeletal restoration

Images for kids

  • Leptoceratops BW

    Restoration.

  • Leptoceratops skull Royal Tyrrell

    Skull

See also

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