DinoFact
Dinosaur Horns, Spikes and Armour
Facts about armoured dinosaurs and their horns, spikes, plates, frills and tail clubs.
- Ceratosaurus had a horn on its nose.
- Yinlong was an early horned dinosaur.
- Triceratops means 'three-horned face'.
- Triceratops had three horns on its face.
- Stegosaurus had pointy spikes on its tail.
- Polacanthus was a spiky armoured dinosaur.
- Prenoceratops was a small horned dinosaur.
- Stegosaurus had bony plates along its back.
- Brachyceratops was a small horned dinosaur.
- Graciliceratops was a small horned dinosaur.
- Some dinosaurs had spikes on their shoulders.
- Nasutoceratops had long horns and a big nose.
- Iguanodon had a sharp thumb spike for defence.
- Rajasaurus was a horned meat-eater from India.
- Wuerhosaurus was a plated dinosaur from China.
- Europelta was an armoured dinosaur from Spain.
- Animantarx was a slow-moving armoured dinosaur.
- Monkonosaurus was a plated dinosaur from Tibet.
- Yamaceratops was a small early horned dinosaur.
- A swinging tail club could keep predators away.
- Chasmosaurus had a very large frill on its head.
- Kentrosaurus had spikes along its back and tail.
- Triceratops had a big bony frill around its neck.
- Panoplosaurus was a heavily armoured plant-eater.
- Stygimoloch had spikes around its bony dome head.
- Triceratops had three horns and a big bony frill.
- Tuojiangosaurus was a plated dinosaur from China.
- Plateosaurus was an early long-necked plant-eater.
- Styracosaurus had a frill ringed with long spikes.
- Chungkingosaurus was a plated dinosaur from China.
- Ankylosaurus had a big club on the end of its tail.
- Archaeoceratops was a small, early horned dinosaur.
- Carnotaurus could run fast and had bull-like horns.
- Einiosaurus had a forward-curving horn on its nose.
- Minmi was a small armoured dinosaur from Australia.
- Gastonia was an armoured dinosaur covered in spikes.
- Talarurus was an armoured dinosaur with a tail club.
- Tarchia was a large armoured dinosaur from Mongolia.
- Horned dinosaurs may have locked horns like deer do.
- Dacentrurus was a spiky plated dinosaur from Europe.
- Hungarosaurus was an armoured dinosaur from Hungary.
- Zhejiangosaurus was an armoured dinosaur from China.
- Armour and spikes protected the slower plant-eaters.
- Sauropelta was an armoured dinosaur with neck spikes.
- Styracosaurus had a ring of long spikes on its frill.
- Saichania was a well-armoured dinosaur from Mongolia.
- Styracosaurus had a crown of long spikes on its frill.
- Anchiceratops was a horned dinosaur with a long frill.
- Microceratus was one of the smallest horned dinosaurs.
- Protoceratops was a sheep-sized early horned dinosaur.
- Stegosaurs had distinctive back plates and tail spikes.
- Triceratops used its horns to defend against predators.
- Stegosaurus tail spikes are nicknamed the 'thagomizer'.
- Kentrosaurus had spikes running down its back and tail.
- Bagaceratops was a small horned dinosaur from Mongolia.
- Pinacosaurus was an armoured dinosaur with a tail club.
- Emausaurus was an early armoured dinosaur from Germany.
- Carnotaurus had little horns above its eyes like a bull.
- Kosmoceratops had a frill lined with many curling horns.
- Nodosaurus was an armoured dinosaur without a tail club.