Dinosauria › Ornithischia › Ceratopsia › Ceratopsidae
Torosaurus
Torosaurus utahensis (Gilmore 1946)
Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) · 72.2–66 Mya
Key Statistics
Diet
herbivore
Locomotion
quadrupedal
inferred from clade
Overview
Torosaurus utahensis is a ceratopsian dinosaur known from the Late Cretaceous, roughly 72.2–66.0 million years ago. It was a herbivore. It was named by (Gilmore 1946). The species is represented by 3 recorded occurrences in the Paleobiology Database.
Fossil Record Completeness
How much of this profile is grounded in the fossil record
~11%
fragmentary record
Confirmed
Inferred
Based on 3 recorded occurrences in the Paleobiology Database.
Geologic Time
Where Torosaurus sits in deep time
Torosaurus
252 Mya201 Mya145 Mya66 Mya
Relationships
Part of a wider fossil web
These species share Torosaurus's place in deep time — computed from overlapping age ranges, shared clades, and inferred ecology.