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Styracosaurus
Temporal range: Upper Cretaceous
Artist's impression of Styracosaurus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Sauropsida
Superorder: Dinosauria
Order: Ornithischia
Suborder: Cerapoda
Infraorder: Ceratopsia
Family: Ceratopsidae
Subfamily: Centrosaurinae
Genus: Styracosaurus
Lambe, 1913
Species
  • S. albertensis (type)
  • S. ovatus Gilmore, 1930
  •  ?S. parksi Brown & Schlaikjer, 1937

Styracosaurus was a genus of herbivorous ceratopsian dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous, about 76.5 to 75 million years ago.

Images for kids

  • Styracosaurus BW

    Restoration

  • Hunting dinosaurs in the bad lands of the Red Deer River, Alberta, Canada; a sequel to The life of a fossil hunter (1917) (20765048851)

    Excavation of the holotype specimen

  • Styracosaurus skeleton

    Styracosaurus "parksi" skeleton, specimen AM5372

  • Hunting dinosaurs in the bad lands of the Red Deer River, Alberta, Canada; a sequel to The life of a fossil hunter (1917) (20758118955)

    Skull of the holotype specimen

  • Ceratopsian skulls

    Ceratopsian skulls, with Styracosaurus on the far left, Natural History Museum of Utah

  • Styracosaurus

    Close-up of the AM5372 skull, American Museum of Natural History

  • Styracosaurus Baltow 20051003 1315

    Model in Poland

  • Dinosaur park formation fauna

    Depiction of the megaherbivores in the Dinosaur Park Formation, Styracosaurus third from left, with herd in the right background


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