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Triceratops
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Triceratops
Triceratops
is a
genus
of
herbivorous
ceratopsid
dinosaur
that first appeared during the late
Maastrichtian
stage of the late
Cretaceous
period
, about 68
million years ago
(Mya) in what is now
North America
. It is one of the last known non-avian dinosaur genera, and became extinct in the
Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event
66 million years ago. The term
Triceratops
, which literally means "three-horned face", is derived from the
Greek
τρί- (
tri-
) meaning "three", (
kéras
) meaning "horn", and (
ops
) meaning "face".
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