did you know psittacosauruses are one of the dinos we know the most about? heres one of those cuties as a cowboy for halloween 🤠

This was gonna be a fullbody but A) I didnt feel like it and B) I liked the textures on the face so i wanted to focus on it

Nasutoceratops. I love these guys, theyre so cute. Peak cow-coded ceratopsid. big round nose, cow sized, cute horns, from texas? What an aesthetic.

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triceratops horridus for coloring (have fun!)

Kofi Commission for JackalYote ! Diabloceratops are some of the coolest ceratopsids.

i'm making dinosaur loaf buttons!!

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Strange Symmetries #17: Spiky Surprise

Styracosaurus albertensis was a ceratopsid dinosaur living during the late Cretaceous about 75 million years ago, in what is now Alberta, Canada. Around 5m long (~16'), it was one of the most elaborately ornamented horned dinosaurs, with a long nose horn and multiple elongated spikes on its frill.

There was actually quite a lot of variation in the frills of Styracosaurus, with varying numbers of long spikes and extra hook-like projections present on some individuals. But one recently-discovered specimen nicknamed "Hannah" is especially surprising – it had a noticeable amount of asymmetry in its skull. The left and right sides show different numbers and arrangements of spikes, so much so that if the two halves had been discovered separately they might have been identified as belonging to two completely different species.

Frill arrangements are often used to define different ceratopsids, so if this level of individual variation and asymmetry existed in other species, too, then we may need to reevaluate some of them.

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A study of the styracosaurus model in Prehistoric Kingdom

Trick or treat!!! 🦤

Diabloceratops!

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Week 4 of casual Dinovember!

The prompt was to "draw any dinosaur that's great at protecting themselves." With a head full of horns like styracosaurus has, I'm sure others didn't want to mess with it very much.

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Hey guys it’s a DIABLOceratops!! Ahahahhheegeh I’m so funniy

“The Ritual”

Two bull Furcatoceratops fight for mating rights, unaware they’re being watched by an enantiornithe and a female of their species.

#Archovember Day 2 - Furcatoceratops elucidans

Hailing from Late Cretaceous Montana, USA, this centrosaur was first described in 2015 as a possible species of Avaceratops. However, this past year it was finally thoroughly described and found to represent a new genus and species: Furcatoceratops elucidans. Because of the disarticulated state of the fossil’s skull and skeleton, it is expected to be helpful in further study of ceratopsid osteology.

An early centrosaurine, Furcatoceratops is closely related to Nasutoceratops (who was originally going to go on this year’s list before Furcatoceratops was described!) Like other Centrosaurines, it likely ate tough low-lying plant material, and may have also used its sharp beak to scavenge. The Judith River Formation where Furcatoceratops was found seems to have had a very diverse community of ceratopsids, such as Avaceratops, Medusaceratops, Spiclypeus, and Judiceratops. It would have also shared its environment with the hadrosaurs Brachylophosaurus, Corythosaurus, and Probrachylophosaurus, as well as the ankylosaur Zuul. Furcatoceratops would have been preyed on by the tyrannosaurids Daspletosaurus and Gorgosaurus, as well as the giant alligatoroid Deinosuchus (who we will be seeing very soon).

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A little sketch of my Pachyrhinosaurus character from the other day!

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