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North Dakota Stratigraphy Triceratops horridus ROCK ROCK UNIT COLUMN PERIOD EPOCH AGES MILLIONS OF YEARS AGO Common Name: Holocene Oahe .01 Three horned dinosaur Coleharbor Pleistocene QUATERNARY Classification: 1.8 Pliocene Unnamed 5 Miocene Class: Reptilia 25 Arikaree Order: Ornithischia Family: Ceratopsidae Brule Oligocene 38 South Heart Chadron Triceratops horridus skull on display in the North Dakota Chalky Buttes Camels Butte Industrial Commission office building in Bismarck. Skull was Eocene Golden 55 Valley Bear Den collected in Slope County from U. S. Forest Service-Dakota Prairie Grasslands administered land. Skull is 1.5 m long. North Sentinel Butte Dakota State Fossil Collection ND 92-19.1. TERTIARY Description: Triceratops (three-horned face) was one of the largest and Bullion heaviest of the plant eating, horned dinosaurs. This dinosaur grew Paleocene Creek to lengths of 30 feet and could weigh as much as 5 tons. Even though the front legs of Triceratops were short, they were Slope powerfully built to support the weight of its extremely heavy head. Cannonball The skull of Triceratops, often at least 6 feet long in adult Ludlow 65 specimens, is distinctive because it is equipped with two long brow Hell Creek horns, one short nose horn, and a large, solid, bone frill that covered its neck. It had powerful jaws that ended in a parrot-like Fox Hills peak. These jaws contained batteries of small teeth adapted for shearing fibrous plants. Damage to many Triceratops skulls suggests that these animals probably sparred with one another by ACEOUS Pierre locking horns and shoving and twisting, possibly to win mates or CRET establish territory. It is possible that Triceratops may have charged predators, such as its contemporary Tyrannosaurus rex, 84 Niobrara similar to an enraged rhinoceros. This species of dinosaurs was Carlile one of the last to ever live. Carbonate Calcareous Shale Claystone/Shale Siltstone Sandstone Sand & Gravel Mudstone Lignite Glacial Drift Triceratops in a bald cypress forest. Painting by Elaenor Kish, courtesy of the Canadian Museum of Nature, Ottawa, Canada. Locations where fossils have been found ND State Fossil Collection Prehistoric Life of ND Map North Dakota Geological Survey Home Page.

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