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Triceratops Facts

Name Means	"Three horned face"
Type	Plant eater, ceratopsian (horned-face dinosaur)
Lived When	Late Cretaceious (99-65 million years ago)
Weight	Up to 9.3 tons
Height	7 feet at the hips
Length	30 feet
Weapons	Its horns
Diet	Plants and woody growth of trees
Habitat	Wyoming and Montana, Saskatchewan and Alberta in Canada
Interesting Triceratops Facts	One triceratops skull that was discovered weighed more than 3.3 tons. That's just the skull! On some adults, the "eye horns" of the triceratops grew to be more than 3 feet long.

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Albertosaurus	Allosaurus	Apatosaurus
Baryonyx	Coelophysis	Cynognathus
Deinonychus	Dilophosaurus	Dimorphodon
Diplocaulus	Dromaeosaurus	Elasmosaurus
Giganotosaurus	Hesperonis	Ichthyosaurus
Kronosaurus	Liopleurodon	Nothosaurus
Ornithomimus	Oviraptor	Ornitholestes
Plesiosaur	Pliosaur	Protoceratops
Quetzacoatlus	Saltopus	Pterodactyl
Stegosaurus	T-Rex	Spinosaurus
Trilobite	Troodon	Triceratops
Utahraptor	Velociraptor	Yangchuanosaurus

Triceratops was not a predator. But if a dinosaur attacked it, it could defend easily with those horns!
Triceratops' big tail helped balance
the weight of its big head!

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