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Area paleontology expert names dinosaur discovered in New Mexico

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It is not often that somebody gets to name a dinosaur.

Robert M. Sullivan, senior curator of paleontology and geology at The State Museum of Pennsylvania in Harrisburg recently got that chance.

He named a new link in the family of horned dinosaurs that scientists say lived 65 million to 70 million years ago in what is now northwestern New Mexico.

Meet Ojoceratops fowleri, a three-horned vegetarian beast of about 17 to 20 feet in length.

Sullivan said in life it would have been larger than a hippopotamus but slightly smaller than an elephant, so you probably wouldn’t want it roaming around in your backyard.

“It would definitely eat your shrubbery,” Sullivan said.

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