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| More Dinosaur Fact Sheets | EnchantedLearning.com Einiosaurus Fact Sheet |
Dinosaur/Paleontology Dictionary |
| NAME: | Meaning - Einiosaurus means "buffalo lizard" (einio comes from the Blackfoot Indian word for buffalo) Pronounced - eye-nee-o-SAWR-us Named By - Scott Sampson When Named - 1995 |
| DIET: | Herbivore (plant-eater) |
| SIZE: | Length - roughly 20 feet (6 m) long Height - about 6.6 ft (2 m) tall at the hips Weight - about 2 tons |
| WHEN IT LIVED: | Late Cretaceous period, about 84-71 million years ago |
| WHERE IT LIVED: | Fossils have been found at the Two Medicine Formation, Montana, United States, North America. |
| FOSSILS: | 3 Einiosaurus skulls have been found. |
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| INTERESTING FACTS: |
Einiosaurus had a long, forward-curving snout horn, two large bony-horns on its neck frill (and many smaller ones), and bony ridges over the eyes. Einiosaurus was probably a herding animal, like the other ceratopsians. T. rex probably ate dinosaurs like Einiosaurus. |
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