From the Hell Creek Formation, Maastrichtian, late Cretaceous (67-66 million years ago), a brow horn and beak from a Triceratops sp., on custom stand.

28 x 15 x 15in. (71 x 38 x 38cm.)

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Lot Essay

The triceratops is one of the most recognisable species of dinosaur, famed for its three-horned head, but also a narrow beak at the frot of the jaw. They lived at the very end of the Cretaceous Period before the fatal mass-extinction triggered by the asteroid that caused the Chicxulub crater 65 million years ago. These 30-foot long herbivores, weighing 12 tonnes, roamed in an area that is now to the East of the Rocky Mountains in North America, which then had a mild climate. They lived contemporaneously with, and were preyed upon by, Tyrannoraurs rex.