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ceratopsid

a. Of or pertaining to these creatures n. Any member of the Ceratopsidae family of dinosaurs

Usage examples of "ceratopsid".

Joe guided their aircraft between the foothills and the coastal plain until they encountered the huge ceratopsid herd.

Rick assumed they were traveling over an upland plain like the one where they had found the ceratopsid herds.

The ceratopsids are known from the Upper Cretaceous sediments mainly from North America.

Uncertain reports about isolated remains of ceratopsids come from South America and Asia.

The ceratopsids were mid-sized to large browsers by dinosaurian standards, 17 to 25 feet in length as adults.

All the ceratopsids were stout four-legged runners, rhinoceros-like in their bulk.

All the ceratopsids have lately been divided into two subfamilies, centrosaurines and chasmosaurines.

The two forms of ceratopsids appear to have coexisted, at least on the floodplains of Alberta and in Montana.

Farther north, Rick and Joe discovered a herd of ceratopsids that stretched over several miles.