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Triceratop
(pronounced tri-SER-uh-tops)

Meaning of Name  Horrible Three-Horned Face

Size  30 feet long, 10 feet tall

Weight  6-12 tons

Features

Lived Late Cretaeceous Period

Diet  plant eater

Locomotion 
walked on four short legs; it was a relatively slow dinosaur

Where Found western Canada and the western United States

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Protoceratops Scelidosaurus Stegosaurus
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