Triceratops
c. 68-66 million years ago · Event
Three horns, a two-metre frill, and a nine-tonne grudge: Triceratops was the great horned herbivore of the very last dinosaur fauna, and tyrannosaur tooth marks on its frills show the most famous predator-prey rivalry in prehistory was real. It is among the last non-bird dinosaurs ever to exist — fossils sit within centimetres of the extinction boundary.
On these timelines: The Age of Dinosaurs, Master
More from The Age of Dinosaurs
- Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction (66000000 BCE)
- Tyrannosaurus rex (68000000 BCE)
- Mesozoic Era (252000000 BCE)
- Paleozoic Era (541000000 BCE)
- Jurassic Period (201000000 BCE)
- Cretaceous Period (145000000 BCE)
- Triassic Period (252000000 BCE)
- Archaeopteryx and the first birds (150000000 BCE)
Around 68000000 BCE
- Ankylosaurus (68000000 BCE)