Styracosaurus

spiked lizard

• styrax · Greek · spike at the butt-end of a spear shaft
• sauros · Greek · lizard

The name combines the Greek "styrax", the spike or butt-end of a spear shaft, with "sauros", lizard. It refers to the long spikes projecting from the back edge of the animal's neck frill. The nasal horn and frill spikes made it one of the most ornately decorated ceratopsians.

Named by

Lambe

Year named

1913

Period

Late Cretaceous

Stage

Campanian

Found in

Dinosaur Park Formation, Alberta, Canada

A centrosaurine ceratopsian. The type species is Styracosaurus albertensis.