Dinosaur
Pentaceratops
Numerous skulls and skeletons are known, so its anatomy is relatively well documented.
Pentaceratops is known from enough skulls and skeletons to compare numerous details of its body.
Three stages. One companion.
Game artwork
AI-generated, stylized game illustrations. These designs and growth stages are imaginative, not scientific reconstructions.
Pentaceratops 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
- New Mexico
- Places where fossils have been found
Beyond the game
The real Pentaceratops
It was a herbivorous ceratopsian known from about a dozen skulls and skeletons. Its first fossils were found in 1921 and it was formally described two years later.
Numerous skulls and skeletons make its anatomy relatively well documented. Together they offer more information than one spectacular fossil: researchers can compare reconstructions and see which features occur repeatedly.
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.A note on the science
Numerous skulls and skeletons make its anatomy relatively well documented. Together they offer more information than one spectacular fossil: researchers can compare reconstructions and see which features occur repeatedly.
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- Pentaceratops
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- Pentaceratops
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- Ceratopsidae
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