# Styracosaurus (Styracosaurus albertensis) — DinoLand

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### id=23: Styracosaurus (Styracosaurus albertensis)

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- Diet: Herbivore
- Era: Cretaceous
- Period: 76–75 million years ago
- Length: 5,5 m
- Weight: ≈2,7 t
- Height: 2 m
- Speed: ≈25 km/h
- Habitat: Forested plains and seasonal wetlands
- Region: North America
- Discovered: 1913, Lawrence M. Lambe

Fact: “Frill bristling with spikes—visual thunder on Campanian floodplains.”

Description: Styracosaurus is a centrosaurine ceratopsian whose parietal frill projects numerous elongate epiparietals resembling a radiating crown. A single chunky nasal horn and a comparatively short face distinguished display arenas along river systems. Herd behavior is suggested by bonebed accumulations preserving multiple age classes.

Features:
  - Six or more marginal spikes ornament the frill in large adults
  - A robust nasal horn anchored frontal displays
  - Monodominant bonebeds indicate gregarious ecology

Related genera: Triceratops, Centrosaurus, Pachyrhinosaurus


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