Large Triceratops Dinosaur Nasal Horn and Nasal bone - Hell Creek formation

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The herbivorous dinosaur well known for the three horns that adorn its skull, the Triceratops roamed our Earth 68 to 65 million years ago. While it may seem near impossible to determine anything about these majestic beasts there are actually quite a few facts which can be obtained about this dinosaur even millions of years later! While paleontologists work to discover as much as they can about this huge prehistoric beast the puzzle of how this horned dinosaur actually lived when it roamed the Earth is slowly coming together piece by piece. From analysis of everything from skulls and horns to predator’s teeth and soil we are coming to know just what the Triceratops really was ! Triceratops: One of the Last Great Dinosaurs 68 to 65 million years ago our earth was nearing the end of the Cretaceous Period and as such the extinction of the dinosaurs was drawing near; however, the late Maastrichtian stage of the Cretaceous period saw the feet of the mighty Triceratops lumber across its plains. The Triceratops, one of the largest ceratopsian dinosaurs was one of the very last dinosaurs to be seen by the Earth before the great extinction in the Cretaceous-Tertiary period and made up the bulk of the plant eating population at that time.You are bidding on the pictured triceratops Nasal Horn. This specimen is a well preserved with excellent read more