Utahceratops gettyi Variant:Unprimed a phenomenon where species tend

a phenomenon where species tend to reduce their size when isolated on islands with limited resources

Its imposing appearance was accentuated by a thick shell and a powerful skull

with cranial articulations that favored greater head mobility

Distinctive feature: It is distinguished from other rhynchosaurs by a unique autapomorphy: the ventral angulation of the paraoccipital processes (on the skull)

Utahceratops gettyi Variant:Unprimed a phenomenon where species tendUtahceratops gettyi is a chasmosaurine ceratopsian dinosaur from the Late Campanian of the Late Cretaceous period , which lived approximately 76 million years ago in what is now the state of Utah, USA . Its name translates as " Utah horned face ," in honor of the location of its discovery and the paleontologist Mike Getty , who found the first remains. Taxonomically it belongs to Ornithischia , Ceratopsia and Ceratopsidae within the subgroup