Pentaceratops

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***Pentaceratops*** is a genus of ceratopsid dinosaur that originated from Late Cretaceous North America. *Pentaceratops* fossils are first unlocked on Isla Sorna then excavated in the Dinosaur Park Formation and Kirtland Formation.

## Characteristics

The game's tallest ceratopsian, measuring almost seven meters in length and weighing in excess of five tons, *Pentaceratops* towers above its relatives such as *Torosaurus* and *Styracosaurus*. As such, *Pentaceratops* bears a strong resemblance to its more famous cousin *Triceratops* – although, as the name (which translates to "*Five-Horned Face*") suggests, it has five horns instead of three. *Pentaceratops* has a huge frill crowned with bony horn-like growths and three large horns; one on its snout and two above its eyes. It used a tough beak with a tooth battery in its upper jaw to consume vegetation like palms and horsetails. *Pentaceratops* has an eye-catching frill protruding from the back of its skull that helps it to attract a mate. The dinosaur's base cosmetic genome is a rusty brown with dark blue and purple on its frill.

Unlocked near the end of the campaign, *Pentaceratops* has above average requirements but is otherwise relatively easy to take care of.

### Behaviour

Like all other ceratopsians, *Pentaceratops* will engage in a death duel with large and medium carnivores such as *Spinosaurus* and *Majungasaurus* if provoked.

*Pentaceratops* is a moderately social animal and requires at least two more of its own kind to maintain a healthy comfort level but otherwise has a very low maximum social and population limit. Additionally, *Pentaceratops* is capable of living somewhat peacefully alongside small carnivores such as *Dilophosaurus* and *Troodon*, only occasionally engaging in non-fatal territorial fights.

*Pentaceratops* will, as all herbivores do, socialize with others of its own species on occasion, but otherwise behaves very similarly to other ceratopsians.

## Paleontology

*Pentaceratops* was first discovered by American fossil collector and paleontologist Charles Hazelius Sternberg in 1921, having unearthed multiple fossils from the Kirtland Formation near the San Juan Basin in New Mexico. Working on commission for the Swedish Uppsala University, Sternberg recovered a skull and rump, specimens PMU R.200 and PMU R.286, at the Meyers Creek near the Kimbetoh Wash in a layer of the Kirtland Formation. Later, in 1922, Sternberg began a dig in the Fossil Forest of San Juan County, New Mexico, where he discovered a complete skeleton of the dinosaur. Exploration of the area led to further findings, and *Pentaceratops* was officially classified as a new genus by Henry Fairfield Osborn in 1923.

Although one of the larger ceratopsids of the Mesozoic Period, in-game, *Pentaceratops* is larger than its real-life counterpart.

Despite its name, the knobs on the side of the *Pentaceratops* head were determined to be outgrowths of the dinosaur's cheekbones rather than genuine horns.

### Paleoecology

*Pentaceratops* existed during the Late Cretaceous period, around 75 million years ago, and on the vast plains of the western United States, feeding mainly on plants and shrubs. It lived alongside numerous other dinosaurs such as the hadrosaurs *Edmontosaurus* and *Parasaurolophus*, the Pachycephalosauridae *Sphaerotholus*, the armored ankylosauridae *Nodocephalosaurus*, and the tyrannosaurid *Bistahieversor*. The Kirtland Formation did not have many species of flowering plants and instead older plant types from the Mesozoic, such as cycads and ferns, still dominated the dinosaur's environment. It was formed from alluvial mud and sand deposits draining the coastal plain on the inland shore of North America.

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