Vegaceratops

Vegaceratops

Vegacertops was a Ceratopsian dinosaur from what is now Alberta Canada.  It had a rather square frill and it had many small horns along the top of the frill.  This horned dinosaur had a nose horn that was small compared to other Ceratopsians like Styracosaurus or Centrosaurus.  Its nose horn was comparable to the Triceratops small nose horn.  But Vegaceratops had no eyebrow horns. . . just little bumps.  The name Vegaceratops means wanderer horned face.  It is referring to how Vegaceratops looks like a close relative from Southern Utah named Kosmoceratops.   The Vegaceratops was identified as its own Genus back in 2001.  

Vegaceratops was up to 20 feet or about 6 meters long.  So it was not a small animal.   It lived in the Cretaceous Period, but not at the end when Triceratops was the biggest Ceratopsian.   Vegaceratops lived 84-72 million years ago.  

As I have mentioned before, the flowers are not a mistake in this drawing.  They have found evidence for flower pollen and therefore flowers on flowering plants dating way back to possibly even before the dinosaurs.  The tree is not a palm tree.  Look very closely and you will see it has cones . . . like pine cones in it.  This tree is a conifer like pine, spruce, and fir trees.  It is a cycad.   

Vegaceratops toy by Safari Ltd.  

Photo from Safari website. . . although I could have taken a photo of my toy dino.  

The Vegaceratops drawing was done from a toy like that pictured here.  The toy is made by Safari Ltd.  The Safari toys are dense, high quality and are absolutely wonderful  They are hard to damage.  They are what I consider to be museum quality replicas. . . all be it very small replicas.  My grandkids love playing with my collection.  I have around 70 or their quality animal toys.  I highly recommend these toys.  I buy them at museum gift shops mostly.  

Printable version of the above new drawing is found by clicking on "Paleontology" button up top.   Then scroll to the bottom of the Mesozoic section.   New drawings are always at the bottom of lists.  The new drawing is also at the bottom of the "All Printables" list.   Older drawings are further up the lists.  The below drawings are all older drawings from previous posts.  

Triceratops Mother feeding the Kids

Styracosaurus feeding on Ferns

Centrosaurus Duel