Protoceratops
Protoceratops Facts
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Name
Means
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"First Horned Face" |
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Type
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Armored plant eater |
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Lived
When
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Late Cretaceous (99-65 million years ago) |
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Length
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Up to 8 feet |
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Height
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Up to 30 inches at the hips |
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Weight
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Up to 570 pounds* |
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Weapons
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Strength, teeth; hooked beak, friends (it ran in herds) |
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Diet
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Low-growing plants |
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Habitat
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Mongolia, North America |
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Interesting Protoceratops Facts |
Protoceratops couldn't run fast because it was too heavy to walk on two legs. But its long tail shows that its ancestors used to walk on two legs (the long tail is used to balance when an animal runs on two legs). *Some places say proceratops only got up to 400 pounds, others say 900 pounds, but my favorite dinosaur book said up to 570 pounds. Protoceratops had a really cool frill on its head.
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Protoceratops
had a beak for a mouth
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Find more protoceratops facts at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protoceratops
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/dinosaurs/
dinos/Protoceratops.shtml
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