OrnithischiaChasmosaurinae

Chasmosaurus belli

Chasmosaurus belli skeletal reconstruction, left lateral view, reconstructed length ~4.9 m.
Scale bar = 1 meter
Taxon
Chasmosaurus belli (Lambe, 1902)
Reconstructed length
~4.9 m (16 feet)
View
Left lateral
Drawing
© Scott Hartman
Drawn
2018, revised 2022
Clade
  1. Ornithischia
  2. Neornithischia
  3. Marginocephalia
  4. Ceratopsia
  5. Neoceratopsia
  6. Ceratopsidae
  7. Chasmosaurinae

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Chasmosaurus is the eponymous member of the chasmosaurine (long-frilled) ceratopsids, which included its famous bigger cousin, Triceratops. Living during the Late Cretaceous in Alberta, Canada, Chasmosaurus is recognizable for its very large frill pierced by two enormous openings. It also has fairly reduced brow horns, demonstrating that brow horn length is not a good proxy for which group of ceratopsids a horned dinosaur comes from.