Triceratops horridus
A kind of triceratops · also called Triceratops
2 views: its portrait, and how it looks in the comparison photos.
About
Triceratops horridus was a massive, three-horned dinosaur that grew about as heavy as a modern African elephant.
Triceratops was among the largest of all horned dinosaurs, easily outweighing earlier ceratopsian relatives. Its massive skull could reach over 7 feet (2.1 m) long, making up nearly a third of its total body length. Fossil specimens show adult sizes varied based on maturity, but full-grown individuals routinely achieved multi-ton body masses. Instead of carrying weight across a long neck and tail, its mass was concentrated in a barrel-shaped torso supported by thick, column-like legs.
From Wikipedia
Triceratops is a genus of chasmosaurine ceratopsian dinosaur that lived during the late Maastrichtian age of the Late Cretaceous period, about 69 to 66 million years ago on the island continent of Laramidia, now forming western North America. It was one of the last-known non-avian dinosaurs and lived until the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event 66 million years ago.
Read more on Wikipedia →Text from Wikipedia’s “Triceratops” article, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Every comparison with a Triceratops horridus
1 on the site
Questions people ask
- How big was Triceratops horridus?
- Triceratops horridus measured about 28 feet (8.5 m) long, stood 10 feet (3 m) tall, and weighed around 15,400 pounds (7,000 kg). That gives it roughly the same body weight as a large male African bush elephant.
- How much space does a Triceratops horridus take up?
- About 9.16 yd³ (7 m³), the volume of its body.
Weight
7.72 US tons (7 tonnes)
- Space it takes up
- 9.16 yd³ (7 m³)
- Length
- 27.9 ft (8.5 m)
- Height
- 9.84 ft (3 m)
Quick answer
Triceratops horridus measured about 28 feet (8.5 m) long, stood 10 feet (3 m) tall, and weighed around 15,400 pounds (7,000 kg). That gives it roughly the same body weight as a large male African bush elephant.
Typical figures, the same ones every comparison on the site uses; real ones vary.
More like a Triceratops horridus
Compare it
Next to anything: a person, a car, another triceratops.