This medium-sized dinosaur belonged to the large family of ceratopsian (horned dinosaurs). The most famous and largest member of this family was Triceratops. With a length of about 20 feet, Eoceratops was much smaller than Triceratops.

Horned dinoasurs varied in size and had different types of horns. Some, like Brachyceratops, were no larger than 6 feet and had only one small horn. These appeared around 75 million years ago. Triceratops was huge and had three big horns, two of which were 4 feet or longer. Triceratops appeared about 67 million years ago.

Eoceratops was an early horned dinosaur. It is thought to date back almost as far as Brachyceratops and is best known from fossil bones dug up in Alberta. Three small horns on its face crowned a 3-foot-long skull. A short bony neck frill protected the back of its head from the fangs of meat-eating dinosaurs. Eoceratops means "early horned face." It was probably the earliest of its family type.

Location: Alberta, Canada

Size: Length- 20 feet

      Weight- 2 to 5 ton

Time: Late Cretaceous