Although it was speculated that this trait could have been an adaptation to searching for prey in water

combinado con su cráneo macizo y alto

También se han hallado restos fósiles que sugieren que podría haber competido con otros grandes mosasaurios

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resting and basking on the rocks

Utahceratops gettyi Variant:Hand-painted Although it was speculated thatUtahceratops 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