Dinosaurs · Ceratopsian

Pentaceratops

Say it pent-ah-ker-ah-tops. The name means ‘five-horned face’.

Pentaceratops beside a person 1.75 m tall. Ticks mark every metre.Body shape drawn for this site, showing the general build of ceratopsians

Length: 6.8 m
Diet: Plant-eater
When: Late Cretaceous76 to 74 million years ago
Fossils found in: USA
Named by: Osborn (1923)
Family tree: Dinosauria › Ornithischia › Ceratopsidae › Chasmosaurinae

Where Pentaceratops sits in the age of dinosaurs.Periods from the ICS chart; dinosaur dates from the Natural History Museum

Ceratopsians. Horned and frilled plant-eaters, such as Triceratops. See all 29

Lived at the same time

Achelousaurus · same country
Bambiraptor · same country
Corythosaurus · same country
Dromaeosaurus · same country
Dryptosaurus · same country
Euoplocephalus · same country
Gorgosaurus · same country
Gryposaurus · same country

Other ceratopsians

Centrosaurus Late Cretaceous
Chasmosaurus Late Cretaceous
Styracosaurus Late Cretaceous
Anchiceratops Late Cretaceous
Einiosaurus Late Cretaceous
Pachyrhinosaurus Late Cretaceous
Protoceratops Late Cretaceous
Albertaceratops Late Cretaceous

Source: Pentaceratops in the Natural History Museum Dino Directory, read 12 November 2026. Sizes are the museum's estimates for a typical adult. "Lived at the same time" lists dinosaurs whose dates overlap, which does not always mean they met.