It lived during the Middle Eocene

with scutes that formed a spiny fringe

Los últimos datos paleontológicos sugieren que esta cresta pudo haber sido más baja de lo que se pensaba inicialmente

and shallow marine platforms

The limbs were columnar and relatively straight

Utahceratops gettyi Leptoceratops It lived during the MiddleUtahceratops 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