Los cuernos y la cresta probablemente tenían funciones en la comunicación entre individuos de la misma especie y en la competencia por la atención de posibles parejas

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

providing protection against predators and other dangers

would begin to show the rudiments of the nasal and supraorbital horns that are characteristic of the species

Snout-tail length 156 mm

Megacerops coloradensis agujaceratops Los cuernos y la crestaMegacerops coloradensis is an extinct species of perissodactyl mammal that lived during the late Eocene period, approximately 37 to 34 million years ago, in what is now North America. This animal belongs to the Brontotheriidae family and is commonly known as a "brontothere". It is distinguished by its large size and its most striking feature: a pair of Y shaped bony horns located on the anterior part of the skull. The body of Megacerops coloradensis