Anchiceratops

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Anchiceratops

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Author: Moondawg

Keywords: extinct, dinosaurs

Release Date: Oct 16, 2008

Current AnchiceratopsMD_2008.ztd dated 15 October 2008

File Size: 7.61mb

Compatibility: DD or CC

Description: Anchiceratops (ANG-ki-SER-a-tops; meaning "near horned face", derived from the Greek "anchi" "near", "cerat" "horn", "ops" "face") is a genus of chasmosaurine ceratopsid dinosaur from t
Anchiceratops ornatus.Anchiceratops frills are very distinctive. Rectangular in shape, the frill is edged by large epoccipitals (triangular bony projections), and has smaller fenestrae (window-like openings) than those seen in other chasmosaurines like Pentaceratops and Torosaurus.Another characteristic feature is the pair of bony knobs located on either side of the midline, towards the end of the frill.

Most Anchiceratops fossils have been discovered in the Horseshoe Canyon Formation of Alberta, which belongs to the early part of the Maastrichtian stage of the Late Cretaceous Period (74-70 million years ago). Frill fragments found in the early Maastrichtian Almond Formation of Wyoming in the United States resemble Anchiceratops (Farke, 2004). However, pieces of a frill have been found from two localities in the older Dinosaur Park Formation (late Campanian, 78-74 million years ago) with the characteristic pattern of points seen in Anchiceratops frills. This may represent an early record of A. ornatus or possibly a second, related species.

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Additional info:

AnchiceratopsMD_2008.ztd                uca: 2C5483F2 dated 15 October 2008

Results From Configuration Checking:

2c5483f2.uca date: Wed Oct 15 18:32:52 2008
No Errors or Warnings to show.
Animal Type: 2C5483F2

Anchiceratops

American paleontologist Barnum Brown named Anchiceratops in 1914, as he
believed Anchiceratops was a transitional form closely related to both
Monoclonius and Triceratops and intermediate between them. There is one valid
species known today (A. ornatus), whose name refers to the ornate margin of
its frill. A second species was named A. longirostris by Charles M. Sternberg
in 1929, but this species is widely considered a junior synonym of A. ornatus
today.
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Animal Characteristics:

Habitat: Grassland; Location: North America
Minimum happiness needed for chance of breeding: 99.
Animal can jump.
Cannot be used in original Zoo Tycoon: cKeeperFoodType (8) is not 0 to 5.

Exhibit Preferences:

Foliage:
Broadleaf Bush, Monkey Puzzle Tree (DD)

Rocks:
Large Rock, Small Rock - Medium, Small Rock - Small

Exhibit Construction:

Number of animals allowed per exhibit: 2-6 with 80 squares for each adult.

Exhibit size (for 2 adults): 160 grid squares

Terrain (for exhibit with 160 grid squares):
112 Grass, 8 Sand, 24 Dirt, 8 Fresh Water, 8 Deciduous Floor

Foliage (for exhibit with 160 grid squares):
14 grid squares should contain foliage.
Foliage that would give the most happiness: Broadleaf Bush
Since this is a small plant, greatest happiness will occur
if each of the 14 grid squares contains 4 of this plant.

Rocks (for exhibit with 160 grid squares):
13 Small Rock - Small, which is its most liked rock.