🎨 RestorationRestoration: Connor Ashbridge · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons Source
Life restorations are artistic reconstructions based on fossil evidence; true coloration and soft-tissue details remain uncertain.
Styracosaurus
Styracosaurus albertensis (Styracosaurus · Styracosaurus)
Known only from fossils. The IUCN Red List assesses only species extant since 1500 CE, so fossil taxa are not assigned a category.
💡 Everyday Comparisons for Size, Mass & Speed
- 💡 Its estimated body length of about 5.5 m (representative value for the genus) is about 1 m longer than a passenger car (about 4.5 m) (Comparison).
- 💡 Its estimated weight of about 2.7 tonnes is close to that of two 1.5-tonne passenger cars (Comparison).
Reference standards: coach bus ~12 m, mid-size car ~4.9 m, compact car ~1 t, basketball hoop 3.05 m, credit card 8.56 cm.
Site-computed relative index from recorded values; not a formal scientific metric.
📖 1. Overview
Styracosaurus albertensis (genus Styracosaurus) was a large herbivorous ceratopsian dinosaur that lived during the Late Cretaceous. It walked on four legs.
🦴 2. Anatomy & Morphology
It had a beak and shearing teeth for slicing plant food.
🔍 3. Fossil Record & Paleoecology
The Natural History Museum, London guide introduces it as herbivorous. The figures given are representative values for the genus Styracosaurus as a whole.
🇰🇷 4. Connection to Korea
No direct record connecting this species to Korea has been found.
📚 Sources & References
- • Fossil taxon — the IUCN Red List assesses only species living or extinct since 1500
- • paleobiodb.org — basicTaxonInfo
- • wikidata.org — Q22113153
- • commons.wikimedia.org — File:Styracosaurus albertensis skull 02.jpg
- • nhm.ac.uk — styracosaurus.html
- • Silhouette: PhyloPic — Craig Dylke · CC0 1.0
Recorded dimensions are widely cited representative estimates from public literature and may vary by study or specimen.