Dinosaur
Wendiceratops
Wendiceratops honors the person who discovered its fossil site.
Wendiceratops honors the person who discovered its fossil site. Its head had curved bony frill ornaments and prominent ornamentation above the nose. Like other ceratopsids, it walked on four legs and used its beak and teeth to eat plants.
Three stages. One companion.
Game artwork
AI-generated, stylized game illustrations. These designs and growth stages are imaginative, not scientific reconstructions.
Wendiceratops at a glance
- Diet
- Herbivore
- It was a plant eater.
- When it lived
- Cretaceous
- Group
- Ceratopsidae
- Ceratopsids
- Fossil locations
- Alberta
- Places where fossils have been found
Beyond the game
The real Wendiceratops
The Alberta fossils were found through the work of fossil hunter Wendy Sloboda, whom the genus name honors. The site yielded many bones, not merely an isolated horn tip.
Comparing its ornaments with those of Sinoceratops and other relatives helps researchers investigate how horns evolved in this group. Their shapes varied greatly between species and could also change as an animal grew.
Comparing its ornaments with those of Sinoceratops and other relatives helps researchers investigate how horns evolved in this group. Their shapes varied greatly between species and could also change as an animal grew.
Fossil discoveries
Selected fossil records · present-day map
Map references
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