Nasutoceratops

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***Nasutoceratops*** is a genus of ceratopsid dinosaur in the *Jurassic World Evolution* series. It originated from Late Cretaceous North America.

*Nasutoceratops* was first added to *Evolution* with Update 1.9. Its fossils are first unlocked at the start of the game then excavated from the Kaiparowits Formation.

## History

At an indeterminate point, at least two adult *Nasutoceratops* appeared in the wild after the events at the Lockwood Manor in 2018. Over the course of the next year, they became a breeding pair, with their infant being the first dinosaur born on U.S. soil.

In 2019, these three *Nasutoceratops* appeared at a campsite in Big Rock National Park, where they foraged for food, before coming into contact with an *Allosaurus*. The *Allosaurus* swiftly attacked the infant and injured the adult female before backing off following the arrival of the adult male *Nasutoceratops*. With the *Allosaurus* subsequently distracted by a group of campers, the *Nasutoceratops* family fled into the wild.

Four years after the incident in Lockwood Manor, several *Nasutoceratops* were captured by illegal breeders alongside *Triceratops* and *Sinoceratops*, while others were taken to a sanctuary created by BioSyn.

## Characteristics

Measuring over seven meters in length and weighing over 1.5 tons, *Nasutoceratops* is a relatively small ceratopsid dinosaur, similar in size to other ceratopsians such as *Triceratops* and *Sinoceratops*, that existed in the southern United States during the Late Cretaceous period. Its name translates to "*Large-Nosed Horned Face*", a reference to the two large horns protruding from its skull similar to those of *Triceratops*, and its distinctive blunt snout. Physically (unlike its fellow ceratopsian *Triceratops*), *Nasutoceratops* is distinguished by its short yet thick snout with no horn and large, unique rounded horns above its eyes that extended out and forward, almost to the end of its beak-like mouth, resulting in similar facial features to modern cattle.

Unlocked at the beginning of the game, *Nasutoceratops* has the most complex requirements of the early game ceratopsians, having higher overall enclosure and social needs than *Triceratops* and *Sinoceratops*.

### Behaviour

*Nasutoceratops* are similar in many respects to other ceratopsid dinosaurs, sharing a similar comfort threshold to *Triceratops*, and benefiting from the same paleobotany preferences of Horsetails, Rotten Wood and Palms. Like other members of their family, they are capable of engaging in death duels with medium and large carnivores. However, they are considerably more social than other ceratopsians, preferring to live in large social groups numbering up to ten other *Nasutoceratops*, as well as mixed-species herds of up to twenty-five different dinosaurs. The *Nasutoceratops'* social needs require that it live alongside at least two other members of its species.

*Nasutoceratops* features an animation unique to itself when killing another dinosaur in a death duel. The animation varies from the typical killing blow done by other ceratopsians in that, rather than impaling and lifting a dinosaur off the ground with its horns, it will charge and then launch a defeated dinosaur into the air or knock them over depending on their weight.

## Paleontology

*Nasutoceratops* is one of the most relatively recent dinosaur discoveries, with the first fossils discovered in 2006 in the Kaiparowits Formation, Utah, when geologist Eric Karl Lund unearthed a number of bones including a partial skull and several vertebrae as part of a project managed by the University of Utah. The holotype is notable in that it is nearly complete, consisting of almost the entire skull, with horns intact, alongside other body parts including forelimbs, and skin impressions. These skin impressions have revealed a trihexagonal tiling pattern of scales. The new genus was officially classified in 2013 given the generic name *Nasutoceratops*. Despite its resemblance to *Triceratops*, *Nasutoceratops* was more closely related to *Styracosaurus* and *Sinoceratops*, and its massive, hollow nose is unseen in any other ceratopsian. Its discovery, alongside that of *Sinoceratops* a few years earlier, showed paleontologists that that particular branch of ceratopsian dinosaurs, the centrosaurines, had a more complicated evolutive history that they had been assuming.

### Paleoecology

*Nasutoceratops* lived during the Campanian stage of the Late Cretaceous around 75 million years ago, in what is now the Kaiparowits Formation in Utah. During that time, the formation would have been a coastal region, lying on the border of the ancient Western Interior Seaway, a sea that split the North American continent, resulting in a coastal jungle climate. *Nasutoceratops* lived alongside species related to those of the Dinosaur Park Formation; including ankylosaurids, fellow ceratopsians *Kosmoceratops* and *Utahceratops*, hadrosaurs like *Gryposaurus*, and tyrannosaurids *Teratophoneus* and *Albertosaurus*, as well as marine reptiles such as crocodilians and turtles. Like many dinosaurs, *Nasutoceratops'* habitat was therefore a warm, wet and humid climate of this period provided plenty of vegetation for *Nasutoceratops* to feed on

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## Behind the scenes

The *Nasutoceratops* was created using the 3D model that was created for 2019's *Battle at Big Rock* by Industrial Light & Magic, as well as audio files provided by Universal Pictures to create the most authentic representation of the dinosaur.

## Gallery

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## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Trevorrow, Colin. (Director). (2019). *Battle at Big Rock* [Short film]. Universal Pictures.
2. ↑ Trevorrow, Colin. (Director). (2022). *Jurassic World Dominion* [Film]. Universal Pictures.
3. ↑ Krupa, Daniel (May 16, 2018). HOW JURASSIC WORLD EVOLUTION MADE ITS T.REX - IGN FIRST *IGN*. Retrieved June 14, 2018