triceratops

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…found near Denver, Colorado, USA, in 1889. At first this fossil was mistakenly identified as extinct species of buffalo. The first Triceratops skull and partial skeletons have been found. CLASSIFICATION: Triceratops was late Ornithischian dinosaur, the order of bird-hipped, herbivorous dinosaurs. It was a member of the suborder Marginocephalia, and the family of lare, horned, herding herbivores, the Certopsians. the ceratopsians were one of the last major pachyrhinosaurs, Montanoceratops, Chasmosaurus, Centrosaurus, Triceratops, Stryacosaurus, Protoceratops, and other