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Interesting Animal Facts

Interesting Animal Facts. Violeta Sandino Khaled Simon Luis Sanchez Marco Osorio. Facts . Triceratops was a member of the plant eating ornithischian dinosaur group called mariginocephalia . Facts . Named because the architectural modification that grace its rear skull. Facts.

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Interesting Animal Facts

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  1. Interesting Animal Facts Violeta Sandino Khaled Simon Luis Sanchez Marco Osorio

  2. Facts Triceratops was a member of the plant eating ornithischian dinosaur group called mariginocephalia.

  3. Facts Named because the architectural modification that grace its rear skull.

  4. Facts It lived 70 to 65 million years ago and was one of the last dinosaur before they all became extinct 65 million years ago.

  5. Facts Triceratops (meaning "Three-horned face") was a was a large, quadrupedal, plant-eating dinosaur with three horns on its large head

  6. Facts A herbivorous dinosaur of the genus Triceratops, of the Cretaceous Period, having a bony plate covering the neck, a large horn above either eye, and a smaller horn on the nose.

  7. Facts Triceratops is known from eastern and western Wyoming, eastern Montana, southwestern North Dakota, central Colorado, Alberta and Saskatchewan in Canada, and northwestern South Dakota. In South Dakota, Triceratops specimens have been found in Harding, Perkins, Corson, Dewey, Ziebach, Meade, and Butte counties.

  8. Facts This species is known by at least 50 complete or partial skulls and some partial skele tons

  9. Facts Triceratops walked on four short, strong legs. It was a slow dinosaur.

  10. Facts Triceratops was probably a herding animal

  11. Facts Triceratops had one of the largest skulls of any land animal ever discovered. Its head was nearly one-third as long as its body.

  12. Significance Triceratops is one of the most famous species of dinosaurs known, and skeletons of the species are found in most paleontology museums. A nearly complete Triceratops horridus skull was found in Harding County, South Dakota in 1927. However, the species was not proclaimed the State Fossil of South Dakota by the legislature until February 14, 1989. The Harding County specimen is on display in the Museum of Geology at the S.D. School of Mines and Technology in Rapid City.

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