Montanoceratops
Montanoceratops (meaning "Montana horned face") was a ceratopsian dinosaur, walked on four legs, had a large head, a bulky body, a parrot-like beak, a small nose horn, cheek teeth, and a small frill on its head. Males may have had larger frills than females, indicating that the frill may have been used in courtship and mating.
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Scientific classification 
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| Unrecognized taxon (fix): | Montanoceratops |
| Species: | Template:Taxonomy/MontanoceratopsM. cerorhynchos
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| Montanoceratops cerorhynchos (Brown & Schlaikjer, 1942)
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Description
Montanoceratops was up to 6 feet long (1.8 m) and weighed about 900 pounds (400 kg). Montanoceratops lived in the late-Cretaceous period, about 72 to 65 million years ago, toward the end of the Mesozoic, the Age of Reptiles. Fossils have been found in Montana and Alberta, Canada.
Montanoceratops Media
- Montanoceratops skeleton.jpg
Mounted type skeleton incorrectly restored with nasal horn
- Montanoceratops BW.jpg
Montanoceratops cerorhynchus, a ceratopsian from the Late Cretaceous of North America, pencil drawing, digital coloring
Leptoceratopsid ulnae, including Montanoceratops (F)
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Ornithischian pedal elements, including of Montanoceratops (D)
- Albertosaurus confronting Pachyrhinosaurus.jpg
Restoration of Montanoceratops (foreground) escaping a conferontation between Pachyrhinosaurus and Albertosaurus