Types of Dinosaurs

Names of Dinosaurs & Dinosaur Information
Dinosaur Name:

Pentaceratops

- Pronunciation: PEN-tah-sair-uh-tops
- Translation: Five-horned Face
- Order: Ornithischia
- Suborder: Marginocephalia
- Infraorder: Ceratopsia
- Family: Ceratopsidae
- Height: 11 feet (3.4 meters)
- Weight: 13,000 pounds (5,897 kg)
- Length: 24.6 feet (7.5 meters)
- Period: Late Cretaceous
- Description: Herbivore, Quadrupedal
- Notes: Pentaceratops was discovered in New Mexico. A long-frilled ceratopsian related to Chasmosaurus, Pentaceratopshad two long brow horns, a shorter nose-horn, and two additional horn-like growths, one on each cheek. It had more horns thanany other horned dinosaur. Its head (including the frill) was 7.5feet ( 2.3 meters) long, more than one-third as long as its body.