Triceratops
Triceratops
Meaning: tri-kéras-ops “three-horn-face”
Subfamily: Chasmosaurinae
Family: Ceratopsidae
Order: Ornithischia
Time Period: Maastrichtian (Late Cretaceous) -- about 66 to 68 million years ago
Location: Present-day Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, South Dakota (US) / Saskatchewan, Alberta (Canada)
Length: 9m / 29.5ft long
Weight: 6.1-12.0 tonnes / 13,000-26,000 lbs.
Triceratops is many peoples' favorite dinosaur, so I hope I did it justice. The quills are a recent discovery, and it is still unknown exactly which species had them and what they really looked like. But I wanted to give it a shot!
The name "Triceratops" actually refers to a genus, not a species. Though my drawing is not fully realistic, it is probably closest to T. prorsus.
I really love how ceratopsians have *so many* different skull shapes -- I hope to draw more in the future.
