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Styracosaurus: quick facts

Found in Alberta, Canada, Styracosaurus was a short-frilled ceratopsian with 6 long spikes along the edgeof its frill. Its snout was shaped like a parrot's beak. And onits snout grew a horn that was n

Period
Late Cretaceous
Diet
Herbivore
Length
17 feet (5.2 meters)
Weight
6,000 lb (2,722 kg)
Family
Ceratopsidae

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