Describer

Loewen, Sampson, Lund, Farke, Aguillón Martínez Leon de, Rodríguez-de la Rosa, Getty, Eberth 2010

Time

Cretaceous Late Campanian

Classification

Ornithischia Genasauria Cerapoda Marginocephalia Ceratopia Neoceratopia Ceratopidae Chasmosaurinae

Diet

Herbivore

Fossilsite

Cerro del Pueblo Formation, Difunta Group in the Parras Basin, near the town of Porvenir de Jalpa, approximately 40 miles west of Saltillo, Coahuila, Mexico

Info

Length: 6-7 meter Skull length: 1.8 m

Etymology

Coahuila refers to the Mexican state of Coahuila where it was found, and to the Greek word \\\\\\\"ceratops\\\\\\\" meaning \\\\\\\"horned face.\\\\\\\" | magnacuerna, is a combination of Latin and Spanish meaning \\\\\\\"great horn,\\\\\\\"in reference to the huge horns above the eyes of this dinosaur, it are the largest know horns above the eyes (1 - 1.2 m.) of any known ceratopsid dinosaur.

Locality and horizon

Coahuilaceratops comes from a rock unit known as the Cerro del Pueblo Formation, which dates to between 71.5 million and 72.5 million years ago. (Campanian)

The skeletons, discovered in 2001 near the town of Porvenir de Jalpa, approximately 40 miles west of Saltillo, were excavated in 2003. Remains of a juvenile animal of the same species were also found at the site. The rocks in which Coahuilaceratops was found also contain large fossil deposits of jumbled duck-bill dinosaur skeletons.