Utahceratops gettyi Variant:Unprimed Snout-tail length 1137 mm

Snout-tail length 1137 mm

a Dimetrodon crept out of the nearby bushes

a phenomenon where species tend to reduce their size when isolated on islands with limited resources

Its imposing appearance was accentuated by a thick shell and a powerful skull

Utahceratops gettyi Variant:Unprimed Snout-tail length 1137 mmUtahceratops gettyi is a chasmosaurine ceratopsian dinosaur from the Late Campanian of the Late Cretaceous period , which lived approximately 76 million years ago in what is now the state of Utah, USA . Its name translates as " Utah horned face ," in honor of the location of its discovery and the paleontologist Mike Getty , who found the first remains. Taxonomically it belongs to Ornithischia , Ceratopsia and Ceratopsidae within the subgroup