Eoceratops Pronunciation

Fun Facts

• ✓Eoceratops was officially named in 1902 by Canadian paleontologist Lawrence Lambe, placing it among the earliest ceratopsids ever formally described from North American fossil beds.
• ✓Most modern paleontologists classify Eoceratops canadensis as a junior synonym of Chasmosaurus, meaning these two names likely refer to the exact same animal and Eoceratops loses by the rules of scientific naming.
• ✓The enormous frill on Eoceratops's head was not solid bone: it had large skin-covered windows called fenestrae that dramatically reduced the weight of the whole structure.
• ✓Eoceratops lived during the Campanian stage of the Late Cretaceous when Alberta was a warm coastal plain pressed up against the Western Interior Seaway, a shallow inland sea that sliced North America completely in two from the Arctic to the Gulf of Mexico.
• ✓Eoceratops shared its territory with early tyrannosaurs and massive hadrosaurs, meaning these horned plant-eaters lived alongside predators that were nearly as powerful as T. rex.