Dinosaur
Diabloceratops
Its head carried a large bony neck frill, like those of other ceratopsids.
The name Diabloceratops attracts attention, but its story begins with a four-legged herbivore.
Three stages. One companion.
Game artwork
AI-generated, stylized game illustrations. These designs and growth stages are imaginative, not scientific reconstructions.
Diabloceratops at a glance
- Diet
- Herbivore
- A plant-based diet is inferred from its anatomy and comparisons with related animals; not all herbivores ate the same plants.
- When it lived
- Cretaceous
- Group
- Ceratopsidae
- Ceratopsids
- Fossil locations
- Utah
- Places where fossils have been found
Beyond the game
The real Diabloceratops
It was a quadrupedal herbivore about four and a half meters long. Its name means "devil-horned face" and the species was described in 2010.
Its head carried a large bony neck frill, like those of other ceratopsids. A colorful name need not describe an animal’s personality: “devil horned face” refers to its anatomy, not proof that it was especially aggressive.
This family includes large dinosaurs with beaks, frills, and horns or bony bumps. These structures help distinguish lineages, but their shape alone cannot establish each species’ behavior.
Fossil discoveries
Selected fossil records · present-day map
Map references
Map: Natural Earth, public domain. Fossil records: linked collections and publications.Sources & text credits
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- Diabloceratops
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- Ceratopsidae
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