Dinosauria › Ornithischia › Ceratopsia › Ceratopsidae
Styracosaurus
Styracosaurus albertensis Lambe 1913
Late Cretaceous (Campanian) · 83.6–72.2 Mya
Key Statistics
Diet
herbivore
Locomotion
quadrupedal
inferred from clade
Overview
Styracosaurus albertensis is a ceratopsian dinosaur known from the Late Cretaceous, roughly 83.6–72.2 million years ago. It was a herbivore. It was named by Lambe 1913. The species is represented by 10 recorded occurrences in the Paleobiology Database.
Fossil Record Completeness
How much of this profile is grounded in the fossil record
~33%
confidence from occurrence count
Confirmed
Inferred
Based on 10 recorded occurrences in the Paleobiology Database.
Geologic Time
Where Styracosaurus sits in deep time
Styracosaurus
252 Mya201 Mya145 Mya66 Mya
Relationships
Part of a wider fossil web
These species share Styracosaurus's place in deep time — computed from overlapping age ranges, shared clades, and inferred ecology.