{"id":6241,"date":"2019-06-30T13:03:59","date_gmt":"2019-06-30T10:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dinoshop.ro\/?page_id=6241"},"modified":"2024-01-16T21:10:23","modified_gmt":"2024-01-16T18:10:23","slug":"triceratops","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dinoshop.ro\/en\/triceratops\/","title":{"rendered":"Triceratops"},"content":{"rendered":"

Triceratops<\/strong> is a genus of herbivorous ceratopsian dinosaur that lived during the Late Cretaceous, approximately 68 million years ago, in what is now North America. Its name is derived from the Greek words tri<\/em> \u2013 three, k\u00e9ras <\/em>\u2013 horn and \u014dps \u2013 <\/em>face and means "face with three horns".<\/p>\n

The first specimen was discovered in 1887 in Denver, Colorado, by paleontologist George Lyman Cannon. The genus was first described in 1889, and numerous remains have been found since then. Between 2000 and 2010, 47 complete or partial skulls were discovered in the Hell Creek Formation of Montana. Paleontologists have found specimens of Triceratops from all life stages, from juveniles to adults.<\/p>\n

Triceratops is one of the most well-known dinosaurs, thanks to its distinctive skull, with a "shield" at the back of the head and three horns in front. The skull was very large in relation to the rest of the body, reaching up to 2.5 meters. One horn was placed above the nostrils, and the other two, which reached about 1 meter each, were placed above the eyes. Early theories claim that these horns were used in combat, but according to more recent theories, they may have been used as distinctive marks of recognition, intimidation or in the mating ritual.<\/p>\n

Triceratops had a robust and heavy body, reaching about 7.9\u20139 meters in length, up to 2.9\u20133 meters in height, and weighing up to 6.1\u201312 tonnes. This was a herbivorous dinosaur and had a mouth in the shape of a narrow and deep \"beak\", which was probably specialized for grabbing and pulling rather than biting. The teeth of Triceratops were arranged in groups called \"batteries\", with between 36\u201340 columns of teeth on each side of the jaw. Each column had between 3\u20135 teeth, resulting in a total of 432\u2013800 teeth. Only a quarter of these teeth were actively used, the rest being spare, as they replaced their teeth throughout their lives.<\/p>\n

Triceratops is among the last ceratopsian dinosaurs to appear before the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event.<\/p>\n

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Triceratops illustration \u2013 artist Tom Parker, Wikipedia<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Size comparison of Triceratops with a 1.8-metre-tall human \u2013 artist Matthew Martyniuk, Wikipedia<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Triceratops skeleton from the Los Angeles Museum of Natural History, Los Angeles, USA - Authors Allie_Caulfield, MathKnight, Wikipedia<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Triceratops skull, frontal view, from the Houston Museum of Natural Science, by Ed T, Wikipedia<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Triceratops skull, adult and juvenile, from the University of California, Berkeley, author EncycloPetey, Wikipedia<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Triceratops teeth, Naturhistorisches Museum Wien, Vienna, author Bradypus, Wikipedia<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n

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