Utahceratops gettyi Masiakasaurus The extinction of R

The extinction of R

possibly for locating prey or carrion

surviving long after its evolutionary relatives had become extinct

as it combines anatomical traits seen in forms such as Styracosaurus

with a potential mass of between 5 and 7 tons in adult individuals

Utahceratops gettyi Masiakasaurus The extinction of RUtahceratops gettyi is a chasmosaurine ceratopsian dinosaur from the Late Campanian of the Late Cretaceous period , which lived approximately 76 million years ago in what is now the state of Utah, USA . Its name translates as " Utah horned face ," in honor of the location of its discovery and the paleontologist Mike Getty , who found the first remains. Taxonomically it belongs to Ornithischia , Ceratopsia and Ceratopsidae within the subgroup