Utahceratops

Utahceratops grazing

Utahceratops was found... can you guess?  Yes, in Utah.  In fact it was found in the Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument.  This animal has similar appearance to a Triceratops, although it was quite a bit smaller.  Utahceratops was 6.6 feet or 2 meters tall.  It was 23 feet or 7 meters long,  Its name means horned face from Utah.  Cetatops means horned face in Greek.   Utahceratops is thought to weigh up to 8,800 lbs... or have a mass of around 4,000 kg.

Utahceratops had much smaller horns than Triceratops.  Utahceratops brow horns faced somewhat
out to the side rather than forward like a full grown Triceratops brow horns.  The naris or nasal cavities or nostrils of Utahceratops were well in front of the nose horn.

Triceratops may have weighed up to 28,000 lbs or a mass of 12,500 kg.  Still, an 8,800 pound Utahceratops was no wimp.   The Ceratopsian dinosaurs were probably browsers who ate leaves from bushes and ferns.  But recent evidence shows that grass was very common by the late Cretaceous Period so the Ceratopsians certainly grazed on grass as well. 

 Adult Triceratops with forward facing Horns