Dinosauria › Ornithischia › Ceratopsia › Ceratopsidae
Anchiceratops
Anchiceratops ornatus Brown 1914
Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) · 83.6–66 Mya
Key Statistics
Diet
herbivore
Locomotion
quadrupedal
inferred from clade
Overview
Anchiceratops ornatus is a ceratopsian dinosaur known from the Late Cretaceous, roughly 83.6–66.0 million years ago. It was a herbivore. It was named by Brown 1914. The species is represented by 6 recorded occurrences in the Paleobiology Database.
Fossil Record Completeness
How much of this profile is grounded in the fossil record
~21%
fragmentary record
Confirmed
Inferred
Based on 6 recorded occurrences in the Paleobiology Database.
Geologic Time
Where Anchiceratops sits in deep time
Anchiceratops
252 Mya201 Mya145 Mya66 Mya
Relationships
Part of a wider fossil web
These species share Anchiceratops's place in deep time — computed from overlapping age ranges, shared clades, and inferred ecology.