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Styracosaurus is one of the most fashionable of the ceratopsians. Having 4 pairs of horns that curved outwards extendingfrom the frill with the topmost pair being the longest. It’s frill had large openings to accommodate for the extra weight bared by the spikes Its nose was equipped with one long lance-like horn that could reach up to two feet long and may have had a curved tip. Stryacosaurus lived in the Dinosaur park formation Parasaurolophus Corythosaurus Lambeosaurus Centrosaurus, Chasmosaurus Eupocephalus Edmontonia and Ornithomimus its predators would have been the Tyrannosaurs Daspletosaurus, Gorgosaurus. Most of the overlapping fossils with Styracosaurus are Lambeosaurus Chasmosaurus and Daspletosaurus.

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History & Fossils ~ ~ ~ ~

Media Deptictions ~ ~ ~ ~

Old buck features an old buck Styracosaurus overlooking its herd as its offspring loses a matting duel, causing the old buck to show the rival male who's boss. Inevitably leading to the rival male's death as the leering pack of Gorgosaurus take advantage of the situation. Watch it and the making of video below:

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Old Buck | Dinosauria Series | Animated Short Film (2021)

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Styracosaurus Albertensis couple by Jay Qui on Sketchfab

Articles:

"The skeleton of Styracosaurus with the description of a new species". (1937)

"Photographic atlas of the postcranial skeleton of the type specimen of Styracosaurus albertensis with additional isolated cranial elements from Alberta" (2005) Download

A Re-Evaluation of the Chasmosaurine Ceratopsid Genus Chasmosaurus (Dinosauria: Ornithischia) from the Upper Cretaceous (Campanian) Dinosaur Park Formation of Western Canada (2007)

A new, transitional centrosaurine ceratopsid from the Upper Cretaceous Two Medicine Formation of Montana and the evolution of the ‘Styracosaurus-line' dinosaurs (2010)

A subadult individual of Styracosaurus albertensis (Ornithischia: Ceratopsidae) with comments on ontogeny and intraspecific variation in Styracosaurus and Centrosaurus. (2020)

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