Jurassic June: Einiosaurus
Name: Einiosaurus
Which means: "Buffalo lizard"
Einiosaurus was a medium sized ceratopsid dinosaur that roamed the plains of North America, 75 million years ago. It grew to about the size of a large steer, and 15-20 feet in length from snout to tail, a little smaller and shorter than its famous cousin the Triceratops.
Like all ceratopsids Einiosaurus was a long frill on the back of its head and a long horn above its snout. What makes this dinosaur unique from other ceratopsids is the horn is unusually curved forward.
Its remains have been found exclusively in Montana and no where else in the United States. This dinosaur shared the same territory along with the ornithopod Orodromeus, the hadrosaurs Maisaura and Hypacrosaurus, smaller therapods such as Bambiraptor and Troodon, and the tyrannosaurid Daspletosaurus.
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