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| NAME: | Meaning - Zuniceratops means "Zuni horned head" - the Zuni are North American Indians Pronounced - ZOO-nee-SAIR-a-tops Named By - Douglas G. Wolfe and James I. Kirkland When Named - 1998 |
| DIET: | Herbivore (plant-eater) |
| SIZE: | Length - roughly 10-11 feet (3-3.5 m) long Height - about 3.3 ft (1 m) tall at the hips Weight - about 100-115 pounds (200-250 kg) |
| WHEN IT LIVED: | Late middle Cretaceous period, about 93-89 million years ago |
| WHERE IT LIVED: | Fossils have been found the Moreno Hill Formation, New Mexico, United States, North America. |
| FOSSILS: | One Zuniceratops skull and a few other bones have been found. Zuniceratops was discovered in 1996 by Christopher James Wolfe (son of paleontologist Douglas G. Wolfe), who was 8 years old at the time. |
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Zuniceratops is the earliest-known ceratopsian to have eyebrow horns. It also had a nasal horn. |
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