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Styracosaurus
| Was a four-legged low-lying plant eating dinosaur that had many horns on its head. Styracosaurus had a huge skull with a very large, bony, scalloped head frill. It had a beak, a long snout horn, two smaller horns and many horns protruding from its frill. Styracosaurus was about 18 feet long, 6 feet tall and weighed up to 3 tons. Syracosaurus lived in herds during the late Cretaceous period, about 77 to 70 million years ago. Ocean Jaspar from and island off Madagascar was the primary rock used in its mosaic. |