# Triceratops (Triceratops horridus) — DinoLand

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### id=2: Triceratops (Triceratops horridus)

- URL: https://www.dinoland.ai/species.html?lang=zu&id=2
- Diet: I-Herbivore
- Era: I-Cretaceous
- Period: Eminyakeni eyizigidi ezingama-68-66 edlule
- Length: 9 m
- Weight: ≈6–12 t
- Height: 3 m
- Speed: до 30 km/h
- Habitat: Amathafa avulekile, izikhukhula, namathafa
- Region: i-America esenyakatho
- Discovered: 1877, u-Othniel Charles Marsh

Fact: "Izimpondo ezintathu kanye ne-bony frill-umbukiso, ukuzivikela, kanye ne-thermoregulation."

Description: I-Triceratops i-chasmosaurine ceratopsian yakamuva ye-Cretaceous yakamuva. I-parietosquamosal frill yayo enwetshiwe kanye nezimpondo zobuso ezintathu okungenzeka zazisebenza ekuqashelweni kwezinhlobo zezilwane, ukubonakaliswa komphakathi, kanye nokuvikelwa ezilwaneni ezidla ezinye; i-frill kungenzeka futhi ibe nendima ekushintsheni ukushisa. Uqhwaku oluncane lwe-rostral namabhethri amazinyo ezihlathini ahlala eshintsha asekela ukunqampuna okuphumelelayo nokugunda kwama-cycad akhula kancane, ama-fern, nezitshalo eziqhakaza kuzo zonke izindawo eziphansi ezisogwini.

Features:
  - I-bony frill ingadlula ~1 m ububanzi obuphambeneyo kubantu abadala abakhulu
  - Amakhulu amazinyo ezihlathini anqwabelene akha ibhethri lokusika eliqhubekayo lezitshalo ezinemicu
  - Izimpawu zokulunywa ezipholisiwe kuma-frills nasezimbambo zibhala ukuhlangana okuphikisayo nama-tyrannosaurids

Related genera: Torosaurus, Nasutoceratops, Centrosaurus


## Ingcaphuno

Field Journal — I-Dinosaur Encyclopedia — https://www.dinoland.ai

Web: https://www.dinoland.ai/species.html?lang=zu&id=2
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