Torosaurus

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Torosaurus (meaning "perforated lizard", in reference to the large openings in its frill) is a genus of herbivorous chasmosaurine ceratopsian dinosaur which lived during the Maastrichtian Stage of the Cretaceous Period between 68 and 66 million years ago, although it is possible that the species range might extend back as far back as 69 million years ago. Fossils which have been definitively identified as Torosaurus or which might belong to it have been discovered across the Western Interior of North America, from as far north as Saskatchewan to as far south as Texas. Measuring between 7.5 and 9 m (25 and 30 ft) and weighing around 8 t (18,000 lb), Torosaurus possessed the longest skull of any known land animal, with the frilled skull reaching 2.77 metres (9.1 ft) in length. Torosaurus is thought to have been the same size as the contemporary Triceratops, but is distinguished by an elongated frill with large oval shaped openings, long squamosal bones of the frill with a trough on their...

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