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AVACERATOPS
(a-vah-seh-rah-tops)
meaning: "Ava horned face"
Avaceratops
Named By: Peter Dodson in 1986
Time Period: Late Cretaceous, 77 Ma
Location: USA, Montana - Judith River Formation
Size: Possibly up to 4.2 meters long
Diet: Herbivore
Fossil(s): Scattered partial remains
Classification: | Chordata | Reptilia | Dinosauria | Ornithischia | Marginocephalia | Ceratopsia | Ceratopsidae |
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Avaceratops is a genus of small herbivorous ceratopsian dinosaurs which lived during the late Campanian during the Late Cretaceous Period in what are now the Northwest United States. Most fossils come from the Judith River Formation.

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