Description: Triceratops extinct dinosaur bone fossil in display case with skeleton toy/model.Triceratops fossil bone was found in South Dakota on the Hell Creek Formation.The fossil is about 1" x 1/2".I'm not sure which part of the Triceratops the bone is from. Fossil comes in a unique display case and includes a laminated information card. Also includes a Triceratops skeleton 8" long toy/model. The toy comes unassembled. It's easy to put together and can be taken apart.This toy is not suitable for children under five years old because of small parts. All fossils sold are authentic and one-of-a-kind. No replicas. Triceratops Triceratops, (genus Triceratops), large quadrupedal plant-eating ceratopsian dinosaur that had a frill of bone at the back of its skull and three prominent horns. Fossils of “three-horned face,” as its Latin name is usually translated, date to the final 3 million years of the Cretaceous Period (145.5 million to 65.5 million years ago), making it one of the last of the non-avian dinosaurs to have evolved. Paleontologists estimate that the body length of Triceratops approached 30 feet. The largest adults are thought to have weighed approximately 12,000–16,000 pounds.Triceratops is the most commonly recovered dinosaur in the uppermost Cretaceous deposits of western North America, and its remains have been found throughout the region. Although many other large ceratopsians have been discovered in massive bone beds representing numerous individuals, Triceratops has only rarely been found in groups of three or more individuals. Triceratops possessed a gigantic skull, and some individuals had skulls about 10 feet long, which would place them among the largest of all terrestrial animals. Triceratops teeth were arranged in groups called batteries, of 36 to 40 tooth columns in each side of each jaw, with 3 to 5 stacked teeth per column, depending on the size of the animal. This gives a range of 432 to 800 teeth, of which only a fraction were in use at any given time. Tooth replacement was continuous throughout the life of the animal. They functioned by shearing in a vertical to near-vertical orientation. The great size and numerous teeth of Triceratops suggests that they ate large volumes of fibrous plant material, with some researchers suggesting palms and cycads, and others suggesting ferns, which then grew in prairies. TR118
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Location: Davenport, Iowa
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