Late Cretaceous Triceratops Bones

Late Cretaceous Triceratops Bones

Triceratops is a herbivorous dinosaur belonging to the family Triceratops in the order Ornithischia. Triceratops is a dinosaur resembling a rhinoceros, with a bulky appearance, thick legs, a head with three horns, a large bone plate extending backwards at the back of the skull to form a neck shield, a short horn above the beak, and two long horns above the eye sockets. Triceratops' horns are defensive weapons. Triceratops are mostly distributed in North America and lived in the late Cretaceous period, approximately 68 to 65 million years ago.