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Coahuilaceratops

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  • Coahuilaceratops comes from a rock unit known as the Cerro del Pueblo Formation, which dates to between 71.5 million and 72.5 million years ago.

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  • Coahuilaceratops is the first horned dinosaur (ceratopsid) and only the fourth dinosaur species from Mexico to be named and described in scientific literature.

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  • Loewen explained that Coahuilaceratops represents the first occurrence of an identifiable species of horned dinosaur in southern Mexico.

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  • The rocks in which Coahuilaceratops was found also contain large fossil deposits of jumbled duck-bill dinosaur skeletons.

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  • Coahuilaceratops, the research team found remains of two other horned dinosaurs, which are less well understood.

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  • Coahuilaceratops appear to be the largest known for the group, exceeding the size of eye horns even in Triceratops.

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  • Coahuilaceratops is among the first dinosaurs from Mexico to be named.

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  • Coahuilaceratops was about 22 feet long as an adult, 6 feet to 7 feet tall at the shoulder and hips, with a 6-foot-long skull, and likely weighed about four to five tons.

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  • By far the most obvious characteristic of Coahuilaceratops

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  • Coahuilaceratops stood on all four legs and was not bipedal.

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