Chasmosaurus
Chasmosaurus was a rhinoceros-like dinosaur, the order of bird-hipped, herbivorous dinosaurs. It was a member of the suborder Marginocephalia, and the family of large, horned, herding herbivores, the ceratopsians. Chasmosaurus was named by paleontologist Lawrence Lambe in 1914.
| Chasmosaurus Temporal range: late Cretaceous
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| Genus: | Chasmosaurus Lambe, 1914
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Chasmosaurus lived 65 to 100 million years ago and was 5 to 6 metres long with a weight of 3.6 tonnes.
They lived in western North America from Alaska to Mexico.
Chasmosaurus Media
George F. Sternberg preparing a C. belli skull in 1914
C. russelli, Royal Tyrrell Museum
Holotype of C. irvinensis at Canadian Museum of Nature
Skull replica of Chasmosaurus irvinensis, sometimes considered its own genus Vagaceratops
Holotype of C. kaiseni, which has also been considered a specimen of Mojoceratops, which itself is probably a synonym of C. russelli
Size comparison of several members of Ceratopsidae with a human, Chasmosaurus in green
Replica of skin impressions
Skull of Chasmosaurus belli displayed at Canadian Museum of Nature
Stratigraphic positions of chasmosaurine specimens from the Dinosaur Park Formation
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