Torosaurus
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| Torosaurus Temporal range: Upper Cretaceous |
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| Mounted Torosaurus in Milwaukee | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Sauropsida |
| Superorder: | Dinosauria |
| Order: | Ornithischia |
| Suborder: | Cerapoda |
| Infraorder: | Ceratopsia |
| Family: | Ceratopsidae |
| Subfamily: | Ceratopsinae |
| Genus: | Torosaurus Marsh, 1891 |
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Torosaurus (meaning "pierced lizard") was a large, quadrupedal, plant-eating Ceratopsian dinosaur with three horns on its large head. Torosaurus hatched from eggs and may have lived in herds.
Torosaurus lived during the Upper Cretaceous, about 70–65 million years ago, in what is now western North America. It was similar to Triceratops, but definitely a different genus.[1]
