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A group of Corythosaurus dinosaurs on a frozen landscape

Ceropod dinosaurs

Ceropod dinosaurs were all plant-eaters and include the horned and duck-billed dinosaurs. The secret of their success was in their teeth. These were much more efficient at grinding up plant food than your typical dinosaur's dentition, so cerapods were able to extract more nutritional value from their food and tackle plants that others found too tough to digest. It wasn't until big herbivorous mammals evolved that such efficient chewing teeth were seen again on Earth.

Scientific name: Cerapoda

Rank: Suborder

Common names:

horn foot

Behaviours

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Herbivorous
Herbivorous Egg layer
Egg layer

Additional data source: Animal Diversity Web

When they lived

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Jurassic period
Jurassic period Cretaceous period
Cretaceous period

What killed them

Cretaceous-Tertiary mass extinction Cretaceous-Tertiary mass extinction
The Cretaceous-Tertiary mass extinction - also known as the K/T extinction - is famed for the death of the dinosaurs. However, many other organisms perished at the end of the Cretaceous including the ammonites, many flowering plants and the last of the pterosaurs.

About

Life

Cerapoda ("ceratopsians and ornithopods") is a clade of the dinosaur order Ornithischia.

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