ALL ABOUT DINOSAURS!
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ZoomDinosaurs.com ALL ABOUT DINOSAURS! |
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| NAME: | Meaning - Torosaurus means "pierced lizard" Pronounced - TOR-o-SAWR-us Named By - Othniel Marsh When Named - 1891 |
| DIET: | Herbivore (plant-eater) - it may have eaten conifers, cycads, ginkgos, and flowering plants. Torosaurus could chew well with its cheek teeth (like other ceratopsians, but unlike most other dinosaurs). |
| SIZE: | Length - 21-25 ft (6.2-7.6 m) long Height - 7 ft (2 m) tall at the hips Weight - roughly 4 tons |
| WHEN IT LIVED: | Late Cretaceous period, about 70-65 million years ago |
| WHERE IT LIVED: | Fossils have been found in the USA (Wyoming, Montana, Colorado, South Dakota, New Mexico, Texas, Utah), and Canada (Saskatchewan), North America. |
| FOSSILS: | The first Torosaurus skull was found by the fossil hunter John Bell Hatcher. |
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Torosaurus' enormous horned skull was 8 feet long. It had a large, bony neck frill, a short horn on the snout, two long eyebrow horns, and a toothless beak. |
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