Avaceratops Facts
- Name: Avaceratops (a-va-serra-tops), “ceratops” means “horned face”
- Size: about 2.5m long and im high
- Food: low-growing plants
- Lived: between about 100-66 million years ago in the late Cretaceous Period, in North America
The Avaceratops dinosaur was about as long as a mini car and sturdily built, like a miniature tank.
This dinosaur had a bony frill, like a collar, around its neck and a short horn on its nose. It’s horn was probably used to protect it from much larger meat-eating dinosaurs.
Beak Like a Parrot
The Avaceratops was a plant-eater. It chopped off the stems with its special mouth, which was rather like a parrot’s beak and then sliced up the woody parts of the plants with rows of sharp teeth at the back of its jaws.
Strong Legs
It is possible that Avaceratops could run quite fast on its four well-muscled legs. As it ran, it balanced itself with its heavy tail which it held off the ground.
Just One Skeleton
So far, only-part-of one skeleton of, Avaceratops has been discovered. It was found in: 1981 in Montana USA. It was not named until 1988.