Dinosauria › Ornithischia › Ceratopsia › Ceratopsidae
Triceratops
Triceratops prorsus (Marsh 1890)
Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) · 72.2–66 Mya
Key Statistics
Diet
herbivore
Locomotion
quadrupedal
inferred from clade
Overview
Triceratops prorsus 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 (Marsh 1890). The species is represented by 17 recorded occurrences in the Paleobiology Database.
Fossil Record Completeness
How much of this profile is grounded in the fossil record
~49%
confidence from occurrence count
Confirmed
Inferred
Based on 17 recorded occurrences in the Paleobiology Database.
Geologic Time
Where Triceratops sits in deep time
Triceratops
252 Mya201 Mya145 Mya66 Mya
Relationships
Part of a wider fossil web
These species share Triceratops's place in deep time — computed from overlapping age ranges, shared clades, and inferred ecology.